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Synonyms of the word 
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- v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
- v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
- v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- n. The act of returning.
- n. A return ticket.
- n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- n. An answer.
- n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
- n. Gain or loss from an investment.
- n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
- n. (computing) A carriage return character.
- n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…
acquisition- n. The act or process of acquiring.
- n. The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
- n. (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting…
answer- n. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
- n. A solution to a problem.
- n. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- v. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- v. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- v. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- v. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- v. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- v. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform;…
- v. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification;…
- v. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- v. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
- v. (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
- v. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
appearance- n. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- n. A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- n. Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
- n. Apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
- n. (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed…
- n. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before…
- n. (law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court…
- n. (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
arrival- n. The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
- n. The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
bring- v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.
carry- v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
- v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
- v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
- v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
- v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
- v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
- v. To be pregnant (with).
- v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
- v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
- v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
- v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
- v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
- v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
comeback- n. A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
- n. A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
- n. (sports) An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage…
communicate- v. To impart.
- v. To share.
convey- v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
- v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
- v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
counter- n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
- n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
- n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
- n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
- n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
- n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
- n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- n. (Internet) A hit counter.
- adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
- n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
- n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- v. To contradict, oppose.
- v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
- v. To take action in response to; to respond.
- adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
- adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
- adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
- adv. At or against the front or face.
- n. (obsolete) An encounter.
- n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
- n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
- n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
- n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.
create- v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
- v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
- v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
- v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
- v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
- v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
deliver- v. To set free.
- v. (process) To do with birth.
- v. To free from or disburden of anything.
- v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
- v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
- v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- v. To discover; to show.
- v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
- v. (medicine) To administer a drug.
denote- v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
- v. (transitive) To make overt.
- v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.
devolve- v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
- v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
- v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
- v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
- v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.
elect- n. One chosen or set apart.
- n. (uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies,…
- v. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
- v. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election.
- adj. (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
- adj. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
fall- n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
- n. A loss of greatness or status.
- n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
- n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
- n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- n. See falls.
- n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
- v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
- v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
- v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
- v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
- v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
- v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
generate- v. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- v. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
- v. (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- v. (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- v. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
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.
go- v. To move.
- v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- v. (intransitive) To attend.
- v. To proceed.
- v. To follow or travel along (a path).
- v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
- v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
- v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
- v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
- v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- v. To pass, to be used up.
- v. (intransitive) To die.
- v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
- v. To break down or apart.
- v. (intransitive) To be sold.
- v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
- v. To say (something), to make a sound.
- v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
- v. To apply or subject oneself to.
- v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
- v. (intransitive) To date.
- v. To attack.
- v. To be in general; to be usually.
- v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
- n. (uncommon) The act of going.
- n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- n. An attempt, a try.
- n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- n. An act; the working or operation.
- n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
- n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
- n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
- n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
- n. A period of activity.
- n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
- n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…
homecoming- n. The act or event of returning home.
- n. (US) In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation"…
income- n. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
- n. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
- n. (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
- n. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
- n. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage…
- n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from…
- n. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible,…
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.
key- n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
- n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
- n. A crucial step or requirement.
- n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
- n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
- n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
- n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
- n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
- n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
- n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
- n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
- n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- n. (masonry) A keystone.
- n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
- n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
- adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
- adj. Important, salient.
- v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
- v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- n. One of a string of small islands.
- n. Alternative form of quay.
- n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).
locomote- v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).
make- v. (transitive, heading) To create.
- v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- v. To constitute.
- v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- v. To appoint; to name.
- v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- v. To enact; to establish.
- v. To develop into; to prove to be.
- v. To form or formulate in the mind.
- v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
- v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
- v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
- n. How a thing is made; construction.
- n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
- n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
- n. A person's character or disposition.
- n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
- n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
- n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
- n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
- n. (slang, military) A promotion.
- n. A home-made project.
- n. (basketball) A made basket.
- n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
- n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
motion- n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
- n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
- n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
- n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
- n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
- n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
- n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
- n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
- n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
- v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
- v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
- v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
movement- n. Physical motion between points in space.
- n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
- n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
- n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- n. An act of emptying the bowels.
- n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
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).
pay- v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
- v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
- v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
- adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
- adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
- v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…
payoff- n. Alternative spelling of pay-off.
proceeds- n. Revenue; gross revenue.
- n. Profits; net revenue.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed.
produce- v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
- v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
- n. Items produced.
- n. Amount produced.
- n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
- n. Offspring.
- n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
re-emerge- v. Alternative form of reemerge.
reappearreappearance- n. the act of appearing again following absence.
recall- v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
- v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
- v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
- n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
- n. Memory; the ability to remember.
- n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
reciprocate- v. (transitive) To mutually give and take something; to interchange.
- v. (transitive) To give something in response.
- v. (intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
- v. (intransitive) To counter, retort or retaliate.
recurrence- n. Return or reversion to a certain state.
- n. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
- n. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
- n. Recourse.
reelect- v. To elect for a second or subsequent time.
refer- v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
- v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
- v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
- v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
- v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.
refund- v. (transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
- v. (obsolete) To supply again with funds.
- v. (obsolete, rare) To pour back.
- n. An amount of money returned.
regaining- v. simple past tense and past participle of regain.
- n. The act by which something is regained.
regress- n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- n. The power or liberty of passing back.
- n. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- v. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- v. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
rejoin- v. To join again; to unite after separation.
- v. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
- v. (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
- v. (archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.
- v. (law, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
- v. (patent law, nonstandard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a…
rejoinder- n. (law) defendant's answer to the replication.
- n. A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty; especially an answer to a question.
- n. (patent law) in US patent law re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent…
- v. (intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
- v. (transitive) To say as a rejoinder.
render- v. (transitive) To cause to become.
- v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
- v. (transitive) To pass down.
- v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
- v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
- v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
- v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
- v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
- v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
- v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
- n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
- n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
- n. (obsolete) A surrender.
- n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
- n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
- n. One who rends.
repayrepeat- v. (transitive, intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
- v. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
- v. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method…
- n. An iteration; a repetition.
- n. A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial…
- n. Patterns of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
repetition- n. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
- n. (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group…
- v. To petition again.
replication- n. Process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
- n. Copy; reproduction.
- n. (law) A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
- n. (biology) The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.
- n. (computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to…
reply- v. (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation…
- v. (intransitive) To act or gesture in response.
- v. (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.
- n. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
- n. Something given in reply.
respond- v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
- v. (intransitive) To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
- v. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
- n. A response.
- n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
- n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost…
response- n. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
- n. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
- n. An oracular answer.
- n. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or…
- n. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- n. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- n. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination…
- n. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
restitution- n. (law) A process of compensation for losses.
- n. The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- n. A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- n. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- n. (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered,…
restoration- n. the process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- n. the return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
retort- n. A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- v. To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
- v. To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation,…
- v. To bend or curve back.
- v. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- n. (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a…
- n. A container in which material is subjected to high temperatures as part of an industrial manufacturing…
- v. (transitive) To heat in a retort.
retrovertreturn- v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
- v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
- v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- n. The act of returning.
- n. A return ticket.
- n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- n. An answer.
- n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
- n. Gain or loss from an investment.
- n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
- n. (computing) A carriage return character.
- n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…
reverse- adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- adj. (botany) Reversed.
- adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
- n. The opposite of something.
- n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
- v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
- v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
- v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
- v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- v. To overthrow; to subvert.
revert- n. One who, or that which, reverts.
- n. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another.
- n. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- n. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier…
- v. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- v. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
- v. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- v. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- v. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters…
- v. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- v. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- v. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
- v. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, often India) To reply; to come back.
- v. (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + …, where one variable y is expressed…
riposte- n. (fencing) a thrust given in return after parrying an attack.
- n. a counter-attack in any combat or any sport.
- n. a quick and usually witty response to a taunt, a retort.
- n. an answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
- v. (fencing) to attempt to hit an opponent after parrying an attack.
- v. to respond quickly; particularly if the response is humorous.
run- v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
- v. (fluids) To flow.
- v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- v. (social) To carry out an activity.
- v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
- v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
- v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
- v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
- v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
- v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
- v. To have growth or development.
- v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
- v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
- v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
- n. A pleasure trip.
- n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- n. Migration (of fish).
- n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- n. A (regular) trip or route.
- n. The route taken while running or skiing.
- n. The distance sailed by a ship.
- n. A voyage.
- n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
- n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- n. A trial.
- n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
- n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
- n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
- n. Any sudden large demand for something.
- n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
- n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
- n. (cricket) A point scored.
- n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
- n. Unrestricted use of.
- n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
- n. A pair or set of millstones.
- n. (video games) A playthrough.
- n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
- adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
- adj. Cast in a mould.
- adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
- adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
running- adj. Moving or advancing by running.
- adj. successive; one following the other without break or intervention.
- adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
- adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
- adj. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- adj. (medicine) Discharging pus.
- adj. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- adv. (informal) consecutively; in a row.
- n. The action of the verb to run.
- n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- v. present participle of run.
subject- adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- adj. Conditional upon.
- adj. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- adj. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- n. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses…
- n. An actor; one who takes action.
- n. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- n. A particular area of study.
- n. A citizen in a monarchy.
- n. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- n. (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- n. A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
- n. (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with…
- n. (logic) That of which something is stated.
- v. (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially…
submit- v. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- v. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
take- v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- v. (transitive) To remove.
- v. (transitive) To have sex with.
- v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- v. (transitive) To consume.
- v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
- v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
- v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- v. (transitive) To require.
- v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
- v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
- v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
- v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
- v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- v. (transitive) To move into.
- v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
- v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
- v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- v. (transitive) To deal with.
- v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
- v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
- v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
- v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
- n. The or an act of taking.
- n. Something that is taken; a haul.
- n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
- n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
- n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
- n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
takingstransport- 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.
travel- v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
- v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
- v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- v. (transitive) To force to journey.
- v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- n. The act of traveling.
- n. pl A series of journeys.
- n. pl An account of one's travels.
- n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
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.
turning- n. (Britain) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
- n. (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their…
- n. The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
- n. The act of turning.
- n. (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
- v. present participle of turn.
yield- v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
- v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
- v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
- n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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