Synonyms of the word run


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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.

accompany

  • v. (transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
  • v. (transitive) To supplement with; add to.
  • v. (intransitive, music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
  • v. (transitive, music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit (with).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
  • v. To be found at the same time.

accomplish

  • v. (transitive) To finish successfully.
  • v. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
  • v. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished;…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.

action

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

apply

  • v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
  • v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
  • v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
  • v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  • v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
  • v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
  • v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit.
  • adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

attempt

  • v. To try.
  • v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
  • v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
  • v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
  • n. The action of trying at something.
  • n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

become

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
  • v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  • v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
  • v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
  • v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

bleed

  • v. (intransitive, of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
  • v. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
  • v. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
  • v. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
  • v. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth…
  • v. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
  • v. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
  • v. To lose sap, gum, or juice.
  • v. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
  • v. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological…
  • n. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
  • n. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for…
  • n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…

break

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
  • v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
  • v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
  • v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
  • v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
  • v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
  • v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
  • v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
  • v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
  • v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
  • v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
  • v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
  • v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
  • v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
  • v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
  • v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
  • v. (sports and games).
  • v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
  • v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
  • v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
  • v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
  • v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
  • n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
  • n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
  • n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
  • n. A short holiday.
  • n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
  • n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
  • n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
  • n. The beginning (of the morning).
  • n. An act of escaping.
  • n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
  • n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
  • n. (sports and games).
  • n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
  • n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
  • n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
  • n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
  • n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

broadcast

  • adj. cast or scattered widely, in all directions.
  • adj. transmitted, signalled, or communicated via radio waves or electronic means.
  • adj. relating to transmissions of messages or signals via radio waves or electronic means.
  • n. A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver.
  • n. A programme (show, bulletin, documentary, and so on) so transmitted.
  • n. (dated) The act of scattering seed.
  • v. To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means.
  • v. To transmit a message over a wide area.
  • v. To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program.
  • v. (archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
  • v. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

campaign

  • n. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
  • n. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
  • n. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
  • v. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

capture

  • n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
  • n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
  • n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
  • n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
  • n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
  • v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
  • v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
  • v. To reproduce convincingly.
  • v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

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.

catch

  • n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
  • n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
  • n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
  • n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
  • n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
  • n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
  • n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
  • n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
  • n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
  • n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
  • n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
  • n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
  • n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
  • n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
  • n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
  • n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
  • n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
  • n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
  • n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
  • n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
  • n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  • n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
  • v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
  • v. (heading) To seize hold of.
  • v. (heading) To intercept.
  • v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
  • v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
  • v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
  • v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

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.

circularise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of circularize.

circularize

  • v. (intransitive) To publicize something by publishing and distributing circulars.
  • v. (transitive) To distribute a circular or circulars to.
  • v. To canvass opinion by using a questionnaire.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) circular in shape.

circulate

  • v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
  • v. to spread or disseminate.
  • v. to become widely known.

compete

  • v. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
  • v. To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
  • v. To take part in a contest, game or similar event.

consort

  • n. The spouse of a monarch.
  • n. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
  • n. A ship accompanying another.
  • n. (uncountable) Association or partnership.
  • n. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
  • n. (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • v. (intransitive) To associate or keep company with.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in agreement.

contend

  • v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

continue

  • v. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
  • v. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
  • v. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
  • v. (intransitive) To resume.
  • v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
  • v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
  • n. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
  • n. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements…

course

  • n. A sequence of events.
  • n. A path that something or someone moves along.
  • n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
  • n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
  • n. A row or file of objects.
  • n. (music) A string on a lute.
  • n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
  • v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
  • v. To run through or over.
  • v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
  • v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
  • adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

damage

  • n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
  • n. (slang) Cost or expense.
  • v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

diffuse

  • v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
  • v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
  • adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

direct

  • adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
  • adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
  • adj. Straightforward; sincere.
  • adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  • adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
  • adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
  • adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
  • adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
  • adv. Directly.
  • v. To manage, control, steer.
  • v. To aim (something) at (something else).
  • v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
  • v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
  • v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

discharge

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

disintegrate

  • v. (transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.

disperse

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
  • v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
  • adj. Scattered or spread out.

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.

disseminate

  • v. (transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc for growth and propagation, like seeds.
  • v. (intransitive) To become widespread.

dissolve

  • v. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
  • v. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
  • v. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
  • v. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
  • v. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
  • v. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
  • v. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
  • v. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
  • v. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the…
  • v. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
  • v. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
  • v. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
  • n. (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

distribute

  • v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
  • v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  • v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
  • v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
  • v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

draw

  • v. (heading) To move or develop something.
  • v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
  • v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
  • v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
  • v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
  • v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
  • v. To disembowel.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  • v. A random selection process.
  • v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
  • v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  • v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
  • n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
  • n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  • n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  • n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
  • n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  • n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
  • n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  • n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
  • n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  • n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

effort

  • n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
  • n. An endeavour.
  • n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
  • v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

endeavor

  • n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
  • n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
  • v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
  • v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

  • n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
  • v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

endure

  • v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
  • v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
  • v. (intransitive) To last.
  • v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
  • v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
  • v. (obsolete) To indurate.

enforce

  • v. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
  • v. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
  • v. (obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
  • v. (obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
  • v. (obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
  • v. (obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
  • v. (obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
  • v. (obsolete) To prove; to evince.

escape

  • v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
  • v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  • v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  • v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
  • v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  • n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  • n. (computing) escape key.
  • n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  • n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
  • n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  • n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  • n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  • n. (obsolete) A sally.
  • n. (architecture) An apophyge.

execute

  • v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
  • v. (transitive) To perform.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.

extend

  • v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
  • v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
  • v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
  • v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
  • v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
  • v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

feed

  • v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
  • v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
  • v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
  • v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
  • v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
  • v. To supply with something.
  • v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
  • v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
  • n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
  • n. Something supplied continuously.
  • n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  • n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
  • n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

flow

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

flowing

  • v. present participle of flow.
  • n. The action of the verb to flow.
  • adj. Tending to flow.
  • adj. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

footrace

  • n. A race run on foot.

free

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

fulfil

  • v. (archaic) To fill up.
  • v. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
  • v. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
  • v. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).

fulfill

  • v. (archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
  • v. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
  • v. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
  • v. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).

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.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

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…

guide

  • n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
  • n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
  • n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
  • n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
  • n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
  • n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
  • n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
  • v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
  • v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
  • v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
  • v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
  • v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

harm

  • n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
  • n. emotional or figurative hurt.
  • n. detriment; misfortune.
  • n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hunt

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  • v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
  • v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  • v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  • v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
  • n. The act of hunting.
  • n. A hunting expedition.
  • n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…

hurry

  • n. Rushed action.
  • n. Urgency.
  • n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
  • v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  • v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
  • v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  • v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

impairment

  • n. The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part…
  • n. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

implement

  • n. A tool or instrument for working with.
  • v. to bring about; to put into practice.
  • v. to carry out; to do.

incline

  • v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
  • v. (intransitive) To slope.
  • v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
  • n. A slope.

incur

  • v. (transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or…
  • v. (chiefly law) To render somebody liable or subject to.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To enter or pass into.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
  • v. (transitive) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

jaunt

  • n. (archaic) A wearisome journey.
  • n. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
  • v. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
  • v. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To jolt; to jounce.

ladder

  • n. A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side…
  • n. (figuratively) A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
  • n. (figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a…
  • n. In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture…
  • v. To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
  • v. (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
  • v. Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.

lam

  • n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean "on the run" (after the dated verb), when a person is fleeing…
  • v. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
  • v. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
  • n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

last

  • adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
  • adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
  • adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
  • adj. Being the only one remaining of its class.
  • adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
  • adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
  • adv. Most recently.
  • adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
  • v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
  • v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
  • n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
  • v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
  • n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
  • n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
  • n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
  • n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

lead

  • n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
  • n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
  • n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  • n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
  • n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  • n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  • n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
  • n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
  • v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
  • v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
  • v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
  • v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
  • v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
  • v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
  • v. To produce (with to).
  • v. Misspelling of led.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
  • n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
  • n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  • n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  • n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
  • n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  • n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  • n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
  • n. (countable, mining) A lode.
  • n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
  • n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
  • n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
  • n. Charging lead.
  • n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
  • n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  • n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
  • n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
  • n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  • n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
  • n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  • n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
  • n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
  • n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
  • n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
  • n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  • n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
  • n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
  • n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
  • n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
  • adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
  • adj. (music) main, principal.
  • v. Misspelling of led.

lean

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

leave

  • v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
  • v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
  • v. (heading) To transfer something.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
  • n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
  • n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
  • n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
  • n. (dated or law) Permission.
  • n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
  • v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

liberate

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

liberty

  • n. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
  • n. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
  • n. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
  • n. Freedom from excessive government control.
  • n. A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.
  • n. (often plural) A breach of social convention.
  • n. A local division of government administration in medieval England.
  • n. In the board game go, an empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

locomote

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

locomotion

  • n. The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
  • n. (biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running,…

loose

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

melt

  • n. Molten material, the product of melting.
  • n. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
  • n. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
  • n. A melt sandwich.
  • n. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
  • n. (Britain, slang) an idiot.
  • v. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

merchandise

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

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…

occur

  • v. To happen or take place.
  • v. To present or offer (itself).
  • v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
  • v. (sciences) To be present or found.

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.

outpouring

  • n. The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.

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).

period

  • adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
  • adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
  • interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
  • n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  • n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
  • n. Female menstruation.
  • n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
  • n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
  • n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
  • n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
  • n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
  • n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
  • n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
  • n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
  • n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
  • n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
  • n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
  • n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

persist

  • v. (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
  • v. (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
  • v. (intransitive) To continue to exist.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.

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.

ply

  • n. A layer of material.
  • n. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
  • n. (colloquial) Plywood.
  • n. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made…
  • n. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
  • v. (transitive) To bend; to fold.
  • v. (intransitive) To flex.
  • v. (transitive) To work at diligently.
  • v. (intransitive) To work diligently.
  • v. (transitive) To use vigorously.
  • v. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
  • v. (transitive) To persist in offering something to.
  • v. (transitive) To press upon; to urge importunately.
  • v. (transitive) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
  • v. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.

prevail

  • v. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage…
  • v. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
  • v. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.

process

  • n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
  • n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
  • n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
  • n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
  • n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
  • n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  • n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
  • n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
  • v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
  • v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
  • v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
  • v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

propagate

  • v. (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
  • v. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
  • v. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
  • v. (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots…
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

race

  • n. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective…
  • n. (computing) A race condition.
  • n. A progressive movement toward a goal.
  • n. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
  • n. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
  • n. Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
  • n. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
  • n. Travels, runs, or journeys.
  • n. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
  • v. (transitive) To compete against in such a race.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
  • n. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics.
  • n. (taxonomy) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly…
  • n. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
  • n. (figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with…
  • n. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities,…
  • n. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
  • n. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

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.

ravel

  • n. a snarl, complication.
  • v. To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
  • v. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
  • v. To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
  • v. (computing, programming) In the APL language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector.

release

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

resolve

  • v. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
  • v. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
  • v. (transitive) To solve again.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
  • v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate;…
  • v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
  • v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
  • v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code;…
  • v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
  • v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
  • v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
  • v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
  • v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
  • n. Determination, will power.

rill

  • n. A very small brook; a streamlet.
  • n. (planetology) Alternative form of rille.
  • v. To trickle, pour, or run as like a small stream.

rivulet

  • n. A small brook or stream; a streamlet.

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.

runnel

  • n. A small stream, a rivulet.
  • v. To create channels for directing the flow of liquid.

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.

sail

  • n. (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the…
  • n. (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
  • n. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
  • n. (dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail.
  • n. The blade of a windmill.
  • n. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
  • n. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
  • n. (fishing) A sailfish.
  • n. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids.
  • n. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
  • v. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled…
  • v. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
  • v. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
  • v. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
  • v. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
  • v. To move briskly.

scarper

  • v. (Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

scat

  • n. A tax; tribute.
  • n. (Britain dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
  • n. (biology) Animal excrement; dung.
  • n. (slang) Heroin.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
  • n. (slang) Coprophilia.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
  • n. (music, jazz) Scat singing.
  • v. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative…
  • v. (colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).
  • v. (colloquial) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

score

  • n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
  • n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
  • n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
  • n. Twenty, 20 (number).
  • n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
  • n. A weight of twenty pounds.
  • n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
  • n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
  • n. Subject.
  • n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
  • n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
  • n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
  • n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
  • v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
  • v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
  • interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

separate

  • adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
  • adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
  • v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
  • v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
  • v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
  • v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

sequence

  • n. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
  • n. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in…
  • n. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the…
  • n. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects.
  • n. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
  • n. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
  • n. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the…
  • v. (transitive) to arrange in an order.
  • v. (transitive) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in…
  • v. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer.

speed

  • n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
  • n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
  • n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
  • n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
  • n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
  • n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
  • n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
  • n. (slang) Personal preference.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
  • v. (intransitive) To go fast.
  • v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
  • v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
  • v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
  • v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
  • v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

spread

  • v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
  • v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
  • v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
  • v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
  • v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
  • v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
  • v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
  • v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
  • v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
  • n. The act of spreading.
  • n. Something that has been spread.
  • n. An expanse of land.
  • n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
  • n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
  • n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
  • n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
  • n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
  • n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
  • n. A numerical difference.
  • n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
  • n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
  • n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
  • n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
  • n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
  • n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
  • n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
  • n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
  • n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

streak

  • n. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
  • n. A continuous series of like events.
  • n. The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak…
  • n. A moth of the family Geometridae Chesias legatella.
  • n. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
  • n. (shipbuilding) A strake.
  • n. A rung or round of a ladder.
  • v. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash.).
  • v. (transitive) To create streaks.
  • v. (transitive) To move very swiftly.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

stream

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

streamlet

  • n. A small stream.

succeed

  • v. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
  • v. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue…
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
  • v. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
  • v. To support; to prosper; to promote.
  • v. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed…
  • v. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  • v. To go under cover.

succession

  • n. An act of following in sequence.
  • n. A sequence of things in order.
  • n. A passing of royal powers.
  • n. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

successiveness

  • n. The quality or state of being successive.

tally

  • adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
  • interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
  • n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
  • n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
  • n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
  • n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
  • n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
  • n. A tally shop.
  • n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
  • v. (transitive) To count something.
  • v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
  • v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
  • v. (intransitive) To keep score.
  • v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
  • v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
  • adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

tend

  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
  • v. (law, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • v. (followed by a to infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain characteristic.
  • v. (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.).
  • v. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
  • v. To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
  • v. (obsolete) To await; to expect.
  • v. (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling…

test

  • n. A challenge, trial.
  • n. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  • n. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
  • n. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to…
  • n. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
  • n. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars…
  • n. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
  • n. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
  • v. To challenge.
  • v. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  • v. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle…
  • v. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
  • v. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its…
  • v. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
  • v. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
  • n. (obsolete) A witness.
  • v. (obsolete) To make a testament, or will.

trade

  • n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
  • n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
  • n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
  • n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
  • n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
  • n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
  • n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
  • n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
  • n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
  • n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
  • n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
  • n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
  • n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
  • v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
  • v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
  • v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
  • v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

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.

treat

  • v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
  • v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
  • v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
  • v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
  • v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
  • v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
  • v. To provide something special and pleasant.
  • n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
  • n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
  • n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
  • n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

trial

  • n. An opportunity to test something out; a test.
  • n. Appearance at judicial court.
  • n. A difficult or annoying experience.
  • n. A tryout to pick members of a team.
  • n. (Britain) An internal examination set by Eton College.
  • adj. Pertaining to a trial or test.
  • adj. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
  • v. To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
  • v. To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
  • adj. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
  • adj. Triple.
  • adj. (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people; contrast singular,…

trip

  • n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  • n. A stumble or misstep.
  • n. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
  • n. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
  • n. A faux pas, a social error.
  • n. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
  • n. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
  • n. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
  • n. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
  • n. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
  • n. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
  • n. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
  • n. A flock of wigeons.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
  • v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
  • v. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety,…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
  • v. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
  • v. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
  • v. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
  • v. (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
  • v. (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
  • adj. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips.

try

  • v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
  • v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
  • v. To test, to work out.
  • v. To experiment, to strive.
  • v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
  • v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
  • v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. An act of tasting or sampling.
  • n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
  • n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
  • adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

unloose

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

unloosen

  • v. To unloose; to loosen.

unravel

  • v. (transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle.
  • v. (intransitive) To become undone; to collapse.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

vie

  • v. (intransitive) To rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
  • v. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
  • v. To stake; to wager.
  • v. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

watercourse

  • n. any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.

win

  • n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
  • v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
  • v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
  • v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
  • v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
  • v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
  • n. gain; profit; income.
  • n. wealth; owndom; goods.
  • n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
  • n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).

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.

zip

  • n. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  • n. (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
  • n. (Britain, New Zealand) A zip fastener.
  • n. (slang) Zero; nothing.
  • n. A trip on a zipline.
  • n. (computing, informal) A zip file.
  • n. (slang) An ounce of marijuana.
  • interj. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  • v. (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file,…
  • v. (intransitive) (followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) (followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to…
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) move quickly.
  • v. To travel on a zipline.
  • n. (US) A ZIP code; a US postal code.
  • n. (US, by extension) Any postal code, for any country.

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