Synonyms of the word roll


ROLLACTUATION - ARTICULATE - BANKROLL - BOIL - BREAD - BREADSTUFF - BUN - CAST - CHANGE - CHURN - COIL - CURL - CURLICUE - CYLINDER - DEFORM - DISPLACE - DRIFT - ENOUNCE - ENUNCIATE - FILM - FINANCES - FLAP - FLATTEN - FORM - FUNCTION - FUNDS - GAIT - GO - GYRATION - GYRE - HOLOGRAPH - HUSTLE - LIST - LISTING - LOCOMOTE - MANUSCRIPT - MOIL - MOVE - OPERATE - PARADIDDLE - PEAL - PEALING - PLUCK - PRONOUNCE - PROPULSION - RAMBLE - RANGE - REVOLUTION - REVOLVE - RINGLET - ROAM - ROCK - ROIL - ROLLER - ROLLING - ROSTER - ROTATION - ROVE - RUN - SAY - SCROLL - SEETHE - SHAKE - SHAPE - SOUND - STEAL - STRAY - SWAN - SWAY - THROW - TRAMP - TRAVEL - TUMBLE - TURN - TWINE - UNDULATE - VAGABOND - WANDER - WAVE - WHEEL - WHORL - WIND - WORK - WRAP

roll

  • v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
  • v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
  • v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  • v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
  • v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  • v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
  • v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
  • v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
  • v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
  • v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
  • v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
  • v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
  • v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
  • v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
  • v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
  • v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
  • v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
  • v. (computing) To generate a random number.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
  • v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
  • v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  • v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
  • v. To have a rolling aspect.
  • v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
  • v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
  • n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  • n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  • n. That which rolls; a roller.
  • n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  • n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
  • n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
  • n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  • n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
  • n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
  • n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
  • n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
  • n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
  • n. A training match for a fighting dog.

actuation

  • n. The act of putting into motion.

articulate

  • adj. clear, effective.
  • adj. especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner.
  • adj. able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals.
  • adj. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
  • adj. (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
  • n. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
  • v. To make clear or effective.
  • v. To speak clearly; to enunciate.
  • v. To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
  • v. To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
  • v. (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
  • v. (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints.
  • v. (obsolete) To treat or make terms.

bankroll

  • n. A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
  • n. The monetary assets of a person or organization.
  • v. (transitive) To fund a project; to underwrite something.

boil

  • n. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
  • n. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
  • n. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  • n. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
  • v. (transitive) To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  • v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
  • v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
  • v. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  • v. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
  • v. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  • v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

bread

  • n. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
  • n. (countable) Any variety of bread.
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • n. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • v. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs.
  • n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
  • v. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
  • v. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
  • n. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

breadstuff

  • n. Flour, grain (such as wheat or oats), or any cereal, such as would be used in the making of bread.
  • n. bread of any sort.

bun

  • n. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
  • n. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
  • n. (Ireland) A cupcake.
  • n. (slang, Britain) A drunken spree.
  • n. (Internet, slang) A newbie.
  • n. (informal, typically used in the plural) A buttock.
  • n. (dialect, archaic) A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel.
  • v. Eye dialect spelling of burn.
  • n. (Korean units of measure) A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

cast

  • v. (heading, physical) To move, or be moved, away.
  • v. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
  • v. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
  • v. (heading, social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
  • v. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
  • v. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
  • v. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
  • v. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
  • v. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
  • v. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by…
  • v. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
  • v. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
  • v. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
  • v. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
  • v. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
  • n. An act of throwing.
  • n. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
  • n. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
  • n. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
  • n. The casting procedure.
  • n. An object made in a mould.
  • n. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
  • n. The mould used to make cast objects.
  • n. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
  • n. A squint.
  • n. Visual appearance.
  • n. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
  • n. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
  • n. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
  • n. A group of crabs.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

churn

  • v. (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or…
  • v. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
  • v. (informal, travel, aviation) (in a booking system) to repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order…
  • n. A vessel used for churning.
  • n. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
  • n. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer…
  • n. Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.

coil

  • n. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
  • n. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
  • n. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
  • n. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
  • v. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
  • v. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
  • v. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
  • n. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

curl

  • n. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
  • n. A curved stroke or shape.
  • n. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
  • n. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
  • n. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
  • n. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
  • n. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically…
  • n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
  • v. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
  • v. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in curves.
  • v. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
  • v. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
  • v. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
  • v. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
  • v. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
  • v. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

curlicue

  • n. A fancy twisting or curling shape made from a series of concentric circles.
  • v. (transitive and intransitive) To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.

cylinder

  • n. (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the…
  • n. (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
  • n. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
  • n. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven…
  • n. (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
  • n. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
  • n. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
  • n. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  • n. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as…

deform

  • v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
  • v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
  • v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
  • v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
  • v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
  • adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

displace

  • v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • v. (psycology) to repress.

drift

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

enounce

  • v. To say or pronounce; to enunciate.
  • v. To declare or proclaim.
  • v. To state unequivocally.

enunciate

  • v. (transitive) To make a definite or systematic statement of.
  • v. To announce, proclaim.
  • v. (transitive) To articulate, pronounce.
  • v. (intransitive) To make sounds clearly.

film

  • n. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
  • n. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • n. A movie.
  • n. (film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.
  • n. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
  • v. To record a motion picture on photographic film.
  • v. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

finances

  • n. plural of finance.
  • n. (plural only) funds or other financial resources.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finance.

flap

  • n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  • n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • n. A hinged leaf.
  • n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
  • n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
  • n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • n. A disease in the lips of horses.
  • n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
  • n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  • v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  • v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

flatten

  • v. (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
  • v. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order…
  • v. (transitive) To knock down or lay low.
  • v. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
  • v. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
  • v. (music) To lower by a semitone.
  • v. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
  • v. (programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array…
  • v. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

form

  • n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  • n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  • n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • n. Level of performance.
  • n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
  • n. The den or home of a hare.
  • n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
  • n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  • n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
  • n. (geometry) A quantic.
  • n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  • v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  • v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  • v. (intransitive) To take shape.
  • v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

function

  • n. What something does or is used for.
  • n. A professional or official position.
  • n. An official or social occasion.
  • n. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
  • n. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of…
  • n. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
  • n. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
  • n. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
  • n. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
  • v. (intransitive) to have a function.
  • v. (intransitive) to carry on a function; to be in action.

funds

  • n. plural of fund.
  • n. Financial resources.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fund.

gait

  • n. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  • n. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
  • v. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

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…

gyration

  • n. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an…
  • n. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
  • n. Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.

gyre

  • n. a swirling vortex.
  • n. a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current.
  • n. A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
  • v. (intransitive) to whirl.

holograph

  • n. A hologram.
  • n. (law, textual criticism) A handwritten document that is solely the work of the person whose signature…
  • v. To record by means of holography.

hustle

  • v. (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
  • v. (transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.
  • v. (transitive) To bundle, to stow something quickly.
  • v. To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
  • v. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
  • v. To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
  • v. To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
  • v. (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
  • v. To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
  • n. A state of busy activity.
  • n. A type of disco dance.
  • n. (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn…

list

  • n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  • n. Material used for cloth selvage.
  • n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
  • n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
  • n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
  • n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
  • n. (obsolete) A stripe.
  • n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  • n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
  • n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  • n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
  • n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
  • v. To create or recite a list.
  • v. To place in listings.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
  • v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
  • v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  • v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
  • v. To plough and plant with a lister.
  • v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
  • n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
  • v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
  • n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
  • n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
  • v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
  • v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  • v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
  • n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

listing

  • adj. Asking, as a price of real estate.
  • v. present participle of list.
  • n. The action of the verb to list.
  • n. An entry in a list or directory.
  • n. (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
  • n. A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing.

locomote

  • v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

manuscript

  • adj. handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
  • n. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically…
  • n. A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted…

moil

  • v. To toil, to work hard.
  • v. To churn continually.
  • v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
  • n. Hard work.
  • n. Confusion, turmoil.
  • n. A spot; a defilement.
  • n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
  • n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
  • n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

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…

operate

  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  • v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

paradiddle

  • n. (music) A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments) which involves playing four even strokes in the…
  • v. To produce percussive sounds of this kind.

peal

  • n. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude,…
  • n. A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
  • n. The changes rung on a set of bells.
  • v. (intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.
  • v. (transitive) To utter or sound loudly.
  • v. (transitive) To assail with noise.
  • v. To resound; to echo.
  • v. (Britain, dialect) To pour out.
  • v. (obsolete) To appeal.
  • n. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

pealing

  • v. present participle of peal.
  • n. The sound made by bells as they peal.

pluck

  • v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
  • v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
  • v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
  • v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • n. An instance of plucking.
  • n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

pronounce

  • v. (transitive) To formally declare, officially or ceremoniously.
  • v. (intransitive) To pass judgment.
  • v. (transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce the components of speech.
  • v. (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
  • v. (transitive) To read aloud.

propulsion

  • n. Force causing movement.

ramble

  • n. A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
  • n. A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
  • n. (mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
  • n. A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
  • v. To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
  • v. To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
  • v. To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.

range

  • n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  • n. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  • n. Selection, array.
  • n. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  • n. An area for military training or equipment testing.
  • n. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
  • n. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
  • n. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  • n. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  • n. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  • n. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference…
  • n. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
  • n. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  • n. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  • n. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
  • n. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • n. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • n. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • n. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian…
  • n. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
  • n. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  • v. (transitive) To rove over or through.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to,…
  • v. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition)…
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the…
  • v. (transitive) To classify.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • v. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose…
  • v. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively…
  • v. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  • v. To separate into parts; to sift.
  • v. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  • v. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

revolution

  • n. A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
  • n. The removal and replacement of a government.
  • n. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
  • n. A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
  • n. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
  • n. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

revolve

  • v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
  • v. To turn on an axis.
  • v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
  • v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

ringlet

  • n. A small ring.
  • n. A lock, tress.
  • n. A brown butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae,…

roam

  • v. (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
  • v. (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or…
  • v. (transitive) To range or wander over.

rock

  • n. Some formations of minerals.
  • n. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support…
  • n. A lump or cube of ice.
  • n. (Britain, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally…
  • n. (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
  • n. Some people.
  • n. Some fish.
  • n. (basketball, slang) A basketball.
  • n. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to…
  • v. (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
  • v. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
  • v. (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
  • v. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
  • v. (euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with someone.
  • n. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
  • n. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar,…
  • v. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
  • v. (transitive) to thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
  • v. (transitive) to do something with excitement yet skillfully.
  • v. (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular…
  • n. (countable) distaff.
  • n. (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
  • n. Archaic form of roc (mythical bird).

roil

  • v. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
  • v. To annoy; to make someone angry.
  • v. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

roller

  • n. (heading) Anything that rolls.
  • n. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
  • n. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
  • n. (heading) A bird.
  • n. (also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
  • n. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective).
  • n. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
  • n. (TV, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
  • n. (slang) A wheelchair user.

rolling

  • adj. (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol.
  • adj. Staggered in time and space; used with blackout, brownout, introduction.
  • v. present participle of roll.
  • n. The act by which something is rolled.

roster

  • n. A list of names, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel…
  • n. A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are…
  • v. To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

rotation

  • n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
  • n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
  • n. A regular variation in a sequence.
  • n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
  • n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
  • n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
  • n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

rove

  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
  • v. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
  • v. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
  • v. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
  • v. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • v. To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • v. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • v. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
  • n. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
  • n. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a…
  • n. The act of wandering; a ramble.
  • v. simple past tense of rive.

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.

say

  • v. (transitive) To pronounce.
  • v. (transitive) To recite.
  • v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
  • v. To indicate in a written form.
  • v. (impersonal) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate…
  • v. (informal, imperative) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
  • v. (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension,…
  • n. One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
  • adv. For example; let us assume.
  • interj. (colloquial) Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion.
  • n. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
  • v. To try; to assay.
  • n. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
  • n. Tried quality; temper; proof.
  • n. Essay; trial; attempt.

scroll

  • n. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  • n. (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant…
  • n. A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed…
  • n. Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
  • n. (geometry) a skew surface.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll…
  • v. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
  • v. (Internet, intransitive) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages…

seethe

  • v. (transitive) To boil.
  • v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To boil vigorously.
  • v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
  • v. (intransitive, of a person, figuratively) To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
  • v. (intransitive, of a place, figuratively) To buzz with activity.

shake

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
  • v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance.
  • v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • n. The act of shaking something.
  • n. A milkshake.
  • n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • n. (building material) A thin shingle.
  • n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • n. A fissure in rock or earth.
  • n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  • n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
  • n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
  • n. A shook of staves and headings.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

shape

  • n. The status or condition of something.
  • n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  • n. Form; formation.
  • n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
  • n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
  • n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
  • n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
  • v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  • v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
  • v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

sound

  • adj. Healthy.
  • adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
  • adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
  • adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
  • adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
  • n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
  • n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
  • n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  • v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
  • v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
  • n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
  • n. The air bladder of a fish.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  • v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
  • v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
  • n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
  • n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

steal

  • v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
  • v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
  • v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
  • v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
  • v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
  • v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
  • v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
  • v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
  • n. The act of stealing.
  • n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
  • n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
  • n. (baseball) A stolen base.
  • n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
  • n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

stray

  • n. Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is…
  • n. (figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
  • n. The act of wandering or going astray.
  • n. (historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e…
  • v. (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
  • v. (intransitive) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to stray.
  • adj. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering.
  • adj. In the wrong place; misplaced.

swan

  • n. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
  • n. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
  • n. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms…
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
  • v. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).

sway

  • n. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
  • n. A rocking or swinging motion.
  • n. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side.
  • n. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
  • n. Rule; dominion; control.
  • n. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
  • n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
  • v. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
  • v. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
  • v. To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide…
  • v. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
  • v. (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
  • v. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
  • v. To have weight or influence.
  • v. To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

throw

  • v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
  • v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
  • v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
  • v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
  • v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
  • v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
  • v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
  • v. (transitive) To imprison.
  • v. To organize an event, especially a party.
  • v. To roll (a die or dice).
  • v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
  • v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
  • v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
  • v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
  • v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
  • v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
  • v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
  • v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
  • v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
  • n. The flight of a thrown object.
  • n. The act of throwing something.
  • n. One's ability to throw.
  • n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
  • n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
  • n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
  • n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
  • n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
  • v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
  • n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
  • n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
  • n. Misspelling of throe.

tramp

  • n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
  • n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
  • n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
  • n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
  • n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
  • v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
  • v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
  • v. To hitchhike.
  • v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
  • v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

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.

tumble

  • n. A fall.
  • n. An act of sexual intercourse.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.
  • v. To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
  • v. To roll over and over.
  • v. (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
  • v. (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
  • v. To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

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.

twine

  • n. A twist; a convolution.
  • n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
  • n. The act of twining or winding round.
  • n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
  • v. (transitive) To weave together.
  • v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
  • v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
  • v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
  • v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
  • v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
  • v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
  • v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
  • v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

undulate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
  • adj. Wavy in appearance or form.
  • adj. Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
  • adj. (botany, of a margin) sinuous, winding up and down.

vagabond

  • n. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  • n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without…
  • v. To roam, as a vagabond.
  • adj. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

wander

  • v. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  • v. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  • v. (intransitive) To commit adultery.
  • v. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  • v. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
  • n. The act or instance of wandering.

wave

  • v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
  • v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  • v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  • n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  • n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
  • v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

wheel

  • n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing…
  • n. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
  • n. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
  • n. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
  • n. (automotive) A wheelrim.
  • n. A round portion of cheese.
  • n. A Catherine wheel firework.
  • n. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
  • n. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
  • n. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
  • v. (intransitive or transitive) To roll along on wheels.
  • v. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
  • v. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.

whorl

  • n. A pattern of concentric circles.
  • n. (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a…
  • n. (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
  • n. (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, compare 1460.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.

wind

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
  • n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
  • n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
  • n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
  • n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
  • n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  • n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
  • n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
  • n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  • n. A bird, the dotterel.
  • n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
  • v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
  • v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
  • v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
  • v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  • v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
  • v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  • v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
  • v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
  • v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
  • v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
  • v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
  • v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
  • v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
  • n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

wrap

  • v. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
  • v. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show,…
  • v. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
  • n. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
  • n. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
  • n. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
  • n. A wraparound mortgage.

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