Synonyms of the word

release

• n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
• n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
• n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
• n. That which is released, untied or let go.
• n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
• n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
• n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
• n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
• v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
• v. To make available to the public.
• v. To free or liberate; to set free.
• v. To discharge.
• v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
• v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
• v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
• v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
• v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
• v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

accomplishment

• n. The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfillment.
• n. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes…
• n. Something accomplished; an achievement.

achievement

• n. The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
• n. A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
• n. (heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called…
• n. (video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

acquittance

• n. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
• n. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To acquit.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

air

• n. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly.
• n. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical)…
• n. A breeze; a gentle wind.
• n. A feeling or sense.
• n. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
• n. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
• n. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
• n. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
• n. An air conditioner or the processed air it produces. Can be a mass noun or a count noun depending on context;…
• n. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
• n. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
• v. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
• v. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
• v. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
• v. To broadcast, as with a television show.

announcement

• n. An act of announcing, or giving notice.
• n. That which conveys what is announced.
• n. The content which is announced.

bare

• adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adj. Naked, uncovered.
• adj. Having no supplies.
• adj. Having no decoration.
• adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
• adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
• adj. Threadbare; much worn.
• adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
• adv. Barely.
• adv. Without a condom.
• n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
• n. Surface; body; substance.
• n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

button

• n. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
• n. A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or…
• n. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
• n. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
• n. (botany) A bud.
• n. (slang) The clitoris.
• n. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
• n. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
• n. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
• n. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
• n. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
• n. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
• n. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something,…
• n. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
• n. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
• n. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A unit of length equal to 1/12 of an inch.
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a button.
• v. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.

channel

• n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• n. The navigable part of a river.
• n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
• n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
• n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
• n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
• n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
• n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• v. To direct the flow of something.
• v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
• n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

channelise

• v. (British spelling) alternative form of channelize.

channelize

• v. To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
• v. (transitive) To transmit through a channel.
• v. (transitive) To multiplex (messages) through a single line.

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

death

• n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent…
• n. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
• n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.

decease

• n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
• v. (now rare) To die.

departure

• n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
• n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• n. (euphemistic) A death.
• n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
• n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
• n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

dismissal

• n. The act of sending someone away.
• n. Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
• n. A written or spoken statement of such an act.
• n. Release from confinement; liberation.
• n. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
• n. (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
• n. (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

dismission

• n. The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).
• n. Removal from office; termination of employment or services.
• n. The setting aside (of something) from consideration.

eject

• v. (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
• v. (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
• v. (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
• v. (intransitive) To project oneself from an aircraft.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of a machine.
• n. (uncountable) A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
• n. (psychology, countable) (by analogy with subject and object) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

exit

• n. A way out.
• n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
• n. The action of leaving.
• n. Death.
• v. To go out.
• v. To leave.
• v. To die.

expel

• v. To eject or erupt.
• v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
• v. (transitive) To deport.

expiration

• n. The act of expiring.
• n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
• n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
• n. (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
• n. A cessation, extinction, ending.
• n. That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

expiry

• n. (Britain) end, termination, expiration.
• n. (Britain) death.

exudate

• n. A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
• v. (obsolete) To exude.

exude

• v. To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

firing

• n. The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
• n. The fuel for a fire.
• n. The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
• n. The dismissal of someone from a job.
• v. present participle of fire.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

free

• adj. (social) Unconstrained.
• adj. Obtainable without any payment.
• adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
• adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
• adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
• adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
• adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
• adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
• adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
• adv. Without needing to pay.
• adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
• v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
• n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
• n. free transfer.
• n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…

freeing

• v. present participle of free.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

going

• v. present participle of go.
• n. A departure.
• n. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
• n. progress.
• n. (figuratively) Conditions for advancing in any way.
• n. (obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
• n. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
• adj. Likely to continue; viable.
• adj. That attends habitually or regularly.
• adj. Current, prevailing.
• adj. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

hand

• n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
• n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
• n. (heading) In linear measurement.
• n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
• n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
• n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
• n. An instance of helping.
• n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
• n. A person's autograph or signature.
• n. Personal possession; ownership.
• n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
• n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
• n. Applause.
• n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
• n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
• n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
• n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
• n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
• n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
• n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
• v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
• v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
• v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
• v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.

handout

• n. A worksheet, leaflet, or pamphlet that is given out (usually by hand) for a certain use.
• n. A gift to the poor or needy.
• n. A gift, something given without effort.

instrument

• n. A device used to produce music.
• n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
• n. A measuring or displaying device.
• n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
• n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
• n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
• v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
• v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
• v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

liberate

• v. (transitive) To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly.
• v. (transitive, military, euphemistic) To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities,…
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.

liberation

• n. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
• n. The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.

loose

• v. (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
• v. (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
• v. (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
• v. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
• v. (archery) to shoot (an arrow).
• v. (obsolete) To set sail.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
• adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
• adj. Not held or packaged together.
• adj. Not under control.
• adj. Not fitting closely.
• adj. Not compact.
• adj. Relaxed.
• adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
• adj. Indiscreet.
• adj. (dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
• adj. (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
• n. (archery) The release of an arrow.
• n. (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
• n. (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
• n. Freedom from restraint.
• n. A letting go; discharge.
• interj. (archery) begin shooting; release your arrows.
• v. Misspelling of lose.

loss

• n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
• n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
• n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
• n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
• n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
• n. destruction, ruin.
• n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

merchandise

• n. (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
• n. (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• n. (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
• v. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• v. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

ooze

• n. Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
• n. Secretion, humour.
• n. A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
• n. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous…
• v. (intransitive) To be secreted or slowly leak.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
• n. Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
• n. A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
• n. The liquor of a tanning vat.

outlet

• n. A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
• n. Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
• n. A river that runs out of a lake.
• n. A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
• n. A wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current…

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).

passing

• v. present participle of pass.
• adj. That passes away; ephemeral.
• adj. (now rare, literary) Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
• adj. vague, cursory.
• adj. going past - passing cars.
• adv. (now literary or archaic) Surpassingly, greatly.
• n. Death, dying; the end of something.
• n. The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
• n. (law) The act of approving a bill etc.
• n. (sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
• n. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.

product

• n. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
• n. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
• n. Anything that is produced; a result.
• n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

promulgation

• n. The act of promulgating or announcing something, especially a proclamation announcing a new law.

publicise

• v. To make widely known to the public.
• v. To advertise, create publicity for.

publicize

• v. (American) Alternative spelling of publicise.

publish

• v. (intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
• v. (transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
• v. (transitive): To announce to the public.
• v. (Internet, intransitive) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the…
• v. (Internet, transitive) To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
• v. (intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).

reach

• v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
• v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
• v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
• v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
• v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
• v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
• v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
• v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
• v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
• n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
• n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
• n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
• n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
• n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
• n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
• n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
• n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

relinquish

• v. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
• v. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
• v. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
• v. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

relinquishing

• v. present participle of relinquish.

relinquishment

• n. The act of relinquishing something.

resign

• v. (transitive) To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
• v. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.

sack

• n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
• n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
• n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
• n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
• n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense⁴ below.
• n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
• n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
• n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
• n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
• n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
• v. To put in a sack or sacks.
• v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
• v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
• v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
• v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
• n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
• v. Alternative spelling of sac.
• n. Alternative spelling of sac.

sacking

• n. (uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
• n. (countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
• v. present participle of sack.

secrete

• adj. (obsolete, rare) separated.
• v. (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to…
• v. figurative uses.
• v. (transitive) To conceal.
• v. (transitive) With away, to steal.

spill

• v. (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
• v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
• v. (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
• v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
• v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
• v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
• v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
• v. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled,…
• n. (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
• n. A fall or stumble.
• n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from…
• n. A slender piece of anything.
• n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing…
• n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…
• n. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
• n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for…

spillage

• n. that which has been spilled.

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

termination

• n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
• n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
• n. An end in time; a conclusion.
• n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
• n. An outcome or result.
• n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
• n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
• n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

transfer

• v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
• v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
• v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
• n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
• n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
• n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
• n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
• n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
• n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

transmit

• v. (transitive) To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
• v. (transitive) To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
• v. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
• v. (transitive) To communicate news or information.
• v. (transitive) To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
• v. (intransitive) To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.

transude

• v. To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

unblock

• v. (transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
• v. (transitive) To free or make available.

unfreeze

• v. (transitive) To defrost something.
• v. (intransitive) To thaw.
• v. (intransitive) To resume movement.
• v. (transitive, computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.

unloose

• v. To release from a constraint; to set free or liberate.
• v. To unfasten, untie.
• v. To disengage.

unloosen

• v. To unloose; to loosen.

vent

• n. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
• n. A small aperture.
• n. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
• n. A verbalized frustration.
• n. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
• n. A slit in the seam of a garment.
• n. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge;…
• n. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage…
• n. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
• n. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
• v. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
• v. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
• v. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
• n. Ventriloquism.
• n. sale; opportunity to sell; market.
• v. To sell; to vend.
• n. (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

waiver

• n. The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
• n. (law) A legal document releasing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver…
• n. Something that releases a person from a requirement.
• v. (transitive) To waive.
• v. Misspelling of waver.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.