Synonyms of the word

saddle

• n. A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
• n. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
• n. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
• n. (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially…
• n. The raised floorboard in a doorway.
• n. (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
• n. (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
• n. (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as…
• n. The clitellus of an earthworm.
• n. Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
• v. To put a saddle on an animal.
• v. To get into a saddle.
• v. (idiomatic) To burden or encumber.
• v. (idiomatic) To give a responsibility to someone.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

burthen

• n. (obsolete, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in…
• n. Archaic spelling of burden.
• v. Archaic spelling of burden.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

command

• n. An order to do something.
• n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
• n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
• n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
• n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
• n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
• n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
• n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
• n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
• v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
• v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
• v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
• v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
• v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
• v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
• v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

compel

• v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
• v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
• v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
• v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
• v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

notch

• n. A V-shaped cut.
• n. Such a cut, used for keeping a record.
• n. An indentation.
• n. A mountain pass; a defile.
• n. (informal) A level or degree.
• v. (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
• v. (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
• v. (transitive) To join by means of notches.
• v. (transitive) To achieve (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).

require

• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
• v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• v. To demand of (someone) to do something.

saddleback

• n. A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
• n. A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
• n. Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
• n. (geology) An anticlinal.
• n. (Britain) the great black-backed gull.
• n. (New Zealand) a bird Philesturnus carunculatis.
• adj. saddle-backed.
• adv. saddle-backed.
• v. (slang) To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity (chiefly by Christian teenagers).

seat

• n. Something to be sat upon.
• n. A location or site.
• n. The starting point of a fire.
• n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
• v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
• v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
• v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
• v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
• v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
• v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
• v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
• v. To put a seat or bottom in.

weight

• n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
• n. An object used to make something heavier.
• n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• n. Importance or influence.
• n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
• n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
• n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
• n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
• n. Pressure; burden.
• n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
• v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
• v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.