Synonyms of the word

recline

• v. (transitive) To cause to lean back; to bend back.
• v. (transitive) To put in a resting position.
• v. (intransitive) To lean back.
• v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a resting position.
• n. A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering…

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

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).

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

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

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

recumb

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To lean; to recline; to repose.

repose

• n. (dated) rest, sleep.
• n. quietness, ease; peace, calmness.
• n. (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.
• v. To lie at rest; to rest.
• v. To lie; to be supported.
• v. To lay, to set down.
• v. To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
• v. To reside in something.
• v. (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

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.

slant

• n. A slope; an incline, inclination.
• n. A sloped surface or line.
• n. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
• n. An oblique movement or course.
• n. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
• n. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
• n. A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolors.
• n. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
• n. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
• n. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement…
• n. (originally US) A point of view, an angle; a bias.
• n. (US) A look, a glance.
• n. (US, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
• v. To lean, tilt or incline.
• v. To bias or skew.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.