Synonyms of the word

scale

• n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
• n. An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
• n. Size; scope.
• n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
• n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified…
• n. A means of assigning a magnitude.
• n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
• n. A mathematical base for a numeral system.
• n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative…
• v. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process…
• v. (transitive) To climb to the top of.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting…
• v. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
• n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of…
• n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their…
• n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
• n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that…
• n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
• n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
• n. Limescale.
• n. A scale insect.
• n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
• v. (transitive) To remove the scales of.
• v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
• v. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
• v. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
• v. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
• n. A device to measure mass or weight.
• n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

attain

• v. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.
• v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
• v. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
• v. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object,…
• v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
• v. (obsolete) To overtake.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

chip

• n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
• n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
• n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
• n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
• n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
• n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
• n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
• n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
• n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
• n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
• n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
• n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
• n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
• n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
• n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
• n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
• v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
• v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
• v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
• v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
• v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
• v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
• v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
• v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
• v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

climb

• v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
• v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
• v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
• v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
• v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
• v. (intransitive) to jump high.
• v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
• v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
• n. An act of climbing.
• n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
• n. An upwards struggle.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

covering

• n. (countable) That which covers something.
• n. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
• v. present participle of cover.

criterion

• n. A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

descale

• v. To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
• v. To remove the scales from a fish etc.

exfoliation

• n. The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
• n. The loss of leaves from a plant.
• n. The removal of a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

foliage

• n. The leaves of plants.
• n. (short for) Fall foliage.
• n. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

gain

• prep. (obsolete) Against.
• adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
• adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
• adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
• adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
• adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
• adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
• n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
• n. What is gained.
• n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
• v. (transitive) To acquire possession of.
• v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest,…
• v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
• v. (transitive) To reach.
• v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
• v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
• v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
• n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports…

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

indicator

• n. A pointer or index that indicates something.
• n. A meter or gauge.
• n. The needle or dial on such a meter.
• n. (chemistry) Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance,…
• n. (ecology) A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
• n. (economics) A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
• n. (Britain, Australia, automotive) A trafficator (dated definition); each of the flashing lights on each…
• n. A bird, the honeyguide.

leaf

• n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
• n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
• n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
• n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
• n. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
• n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
• n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms…
• n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise…
• n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
• n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
• n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
• v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

leafage

• n. The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

model

• n. A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also…
• n. A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given…
• n. A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
• n. A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
• n. A style, type, or design.
• n. The structural design of a complex system.
• n. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
• n. (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
• n. (logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called…
• n. A particular style, design, or make of a particular product.
• n. (manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).
• n. (medicine) An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
• n. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
• n. (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part…
• adj. Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
• v. (transitive) To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the…
• v. (transitive) To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.
• v. (transitive) To make a miniature model of.
• v. (transitive) To create from a substance such as clay.
• v. (intransitive) To make a model or models.
• v. (intransitive) To be a model of any kind.

mount

• n. A mountain.
• n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences…
• n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
• n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
• n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse.
• n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
• v. (heading, physical) To move upwards.
• v. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
• v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
• v. (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
• v. (transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
• v. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

pattern

• n. Model, example.
• n. A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
• n. A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative…
• n. The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
• n. A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen…
• n. (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
• v. To apply a pattern.
• v. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model;…
• v. To follow an example.
• v. To fit into a pattern.
• v. (transitive) To serve as an example for.

plate

• n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
• n. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
• n. The contents of such a dish.
• n. A course at a meal.
• n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities.
• n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
• n. A vehicle license plate.
• n. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating.
• n. A material covered with such a layer.
• n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
• n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell,…
• n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
• n. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
• n. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page…
• n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which…
• n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
• n. (baseball) Home plate.
• n. (geology) A tectonic plate.
• n. (historical) Plate armour.
• n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
• n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis…
• n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
• n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
• n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
• n. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
• n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
• n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name,…
• n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of…
• n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
• n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
• n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
• n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally…
• n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
• n. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
• v. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
• v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
• v. To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (baseball) To score a run.
• v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
• n. Precious metal, especially silver.

proportion

• n. (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
• n. (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
• n. (countable) Proper or equal share.
• n. The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
• n. (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
• n. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
• v. (art) To set or render in proportion.

quantify

• v. To assign a quantity to.
• v. To determine the value of (a variable or expression).

reach

• v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
• v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
• v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
• v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
• v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
• v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
• v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
• v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
• v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
• n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
• n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
• n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
• n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
• n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
• n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
• n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
• n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

scurf

• n. A skin disease.
• n. The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.
• n. Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.
• n. (figuratively) The foul remains of anything adherent.
• n. (botany) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

shield

• n. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
• n. Something shaped like a shield, usually an inverted triangle with slightly curved lower sides.
• n. (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
• n. (figuratively, Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete) A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
• v. To protect, to defend.
• v. (electricity) to protect from the influence of.

size

• n. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize.
• n. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
• n. (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
• n. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
• n. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
• n. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
• n. (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
• n. (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
• n. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used…
• v. (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
• v. (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
• v. (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
• v. (Britain, Cambridge University slang, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
• n. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
• n. Wallpaper paste.
• n. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
• n. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
• v. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

standard

• adj. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
• adj. (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
• adj. Having recognized excellence or authority.
• adj. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
• adj. (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
• adj. As normally supplied (not optional).
• n. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
• n. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
• n. A manual transmission vehicle.
• n. (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch…
• n. A large drinking cup.

surmount

• v. To get over; to overcome.
• v. To cap; to sit on top off.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

touchstone

• n. A stone used to check the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them to leave a visible trace.
• n. (figuratively, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.