Synonyms of the word

ruff

• n. A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia, Philomachus pugnax.
• n. Alternative spelling of ruffe a small freshwater fish; a pope.
• n. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan…
• n. Anything formed with plaits or flutings, like the frill.
• n. (obsolete) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
• n. (obsolete) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
• n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
• n. (engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
• n. A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
• v. To ruffle; to disorder.
• v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
• v. (hawking) To hit (the prey) without fixing it.
• n. (obsolete) A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
• v. (card games) To play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led.
• adj. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of rough.
• interj. The bark of a dog; woof.

choker

• n. A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat.
• n. One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
• n. One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
• n. (slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
• n. One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when…

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

frill

• n. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
• n. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
• n. A luxury.
• n. Something extraneous added for effect.
• v. (transitive) To make into a frill.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold.

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…

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…

neckband

• n. A band worn around the neck.
• v. To attach a band around the neck (especially of wild animals).

play

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

ruffle

• n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
• n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
• n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
• n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
• v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
• v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
• v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
• v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
• v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
• v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
• v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

sandpiper

• n. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

trump

• n. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
• n. (card games) A playing card of that suit.
• n. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
• n. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
• n. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
• n. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
• v. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
• v. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
• v. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
• v. (transitive) To supersede.
• n. (archaic) A trumpet.
• n. (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
• n. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
• v. To blow a trumpet.
• v. (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
• n. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.

trumping

• v. present participle of trump.
• n. The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
• n. (poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet.

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.