Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

achieve

• v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
• v. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
• v. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
• v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

appraise

• v. (transitive) To set a value or worth of something, particularly by people appointed for the purpose.
• v. (transitive) To consider comprehensively.
• v. (transitive) To judge the performance of someone, especially a worker.
• v. To estimate; to conjecture.
• v. To praise; to commend.
• v. (proscribed) To apprise, inform.

assess

• v. (transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate.
• v. (transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
• v. (transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

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.

bitterness

• n. The quality of having a bitter taste.
• n. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.

compose

• v. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
• v. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
• v. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create…
• v. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
• v. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
• v. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
• v. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
• v. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

conquest

• n. Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
• n. (figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
• n. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
• n. (feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
• n. (colloquial, figuratively) A person with whom one has had sex.
• n. (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually…
• v. (archaic) To conquer.
• v. (marketing) To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products…

debt

• n. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another,…
• n. The state or condition of owing something to another.
• n. Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan…
• n. (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

dent

• n. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
• n. A type of maize/corn with with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at…
• n. (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution,…
• v. (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
• v. (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
• n. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

enter

• v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
• v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
• v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
• v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
• v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
• v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
• v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
• v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
• v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
• v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).

evaluate

• v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
• v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

evaluation

• n. An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase…
• n. (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
• n. (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

fact

• n. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
• n. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
• n. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.
• n. An honest observation.
• n. Something actual as opposed to invented.
• n. Something which is real.
• n. Something which has become real.
• n. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
• n. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
• n. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
• interj. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

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…

gall

• n. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting…
• n. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
• n. (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
• n. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
• n. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
• n. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as…
• n. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
• n. (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the…
• v. (transitive) To trouble or bother.
• v. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
• v. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
• v. To exasperate.
• v. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond…
• v. To scoff; to jeer.
• n. (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing…
• v. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

grade

• n. A rating.
• n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
• n. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
• n. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage.
• n. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
• n. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
• n. An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine).
• n. The level of the ground.
• n. (mathematics) A gradian.
• n. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection…
• n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
• n. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
• n. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
• v. To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
• v. To assign a score to overall academic performance.
• v. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
• v. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make…

grievance

• n. (countable) Something which causes grief.
• n. A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
• n. A complaint or annoyance.
• n. A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

grudge

• n. (countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone, especially…
• v. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
• v. (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
• v. (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
• v. (obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.

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.

incision

• n. A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation.
• n. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
• n. (obsolete) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

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.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

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.

nock

• n. Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
• n. The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
• n. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
• v. (transitive) To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow.
• v. (transitive) To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).
• n. Misspelling of knock.

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).

number

• n. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
• n. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
• n. (countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers,…
• n. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence…
• n. Quantity.
• n. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
• n. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
• n. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
• n. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
• n. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
• n. (countable, informal) A person.
• n. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
• n. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
• n. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
• v. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
• v. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
• adj. comparative form of numb: more numb.

persuade

• v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
• v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…

prick

• n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
• n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
• n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
• n. A small pointed object.
• n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
• n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
• n. The footprint of a hare.
• n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
• n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
• v. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
• v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
• v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to…
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
• v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
• v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an…
• v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular…
• v. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
• v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
• v. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
• v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
• v. To aim at a point or mark.
• v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.

rancor

• n. The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

rancour

• n. Britain and Canada spelling of rancor.

rating

• v. present participle of rate.
• n. A position on a scale.
• n. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
• n. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
• n. (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
• n. (nautical) The status of a seaman, corresponding to rank in officers.

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.

reason

• n. A cause.
• n. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception,…
• n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
• n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process…
• v. (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute;…
• v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
• v. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to…
• v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
• v. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
• v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
• v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

record

• n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
• n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
• n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
• n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
• n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
• v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
• v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
• v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
• v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
• v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
• v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

resentment

• n. A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed;…
• n. (obsolete) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined…
• n. (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude.

scotch

• n. A surface cut or abrasion.
• n. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
• n. A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
• v. (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• v. (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
• v. (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
• v. (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
• v. (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clothe or cover up.
• adj. Of Scottish origin.
• n. Whisky of Scottish origin.
• n. Scotch tape.
• v. (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) to rape.

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

seduce

• v. To beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
• v. To entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship.
• v. (by extension, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. To win over or attract someone.

seduction

• n. The act of seducing.
• n. (dated, law, in English common law) The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female…

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

slit

• n. A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
• n. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
• v. To cut a narrow opening.
• v. To split in two parts.
• v. (transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
• adj. Having a cut narrow opening.

success

• n. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
• n. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
• n. (business) financial profitability.
• n. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
• n. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

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.

valuate

• v. To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation.

valuation

• n. An estimation of something's worth.
• n. (finance) The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
• n. (logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with…
• n. (logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value…
• n. (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
• n. (measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of…

value

• n. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
• n. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
• n. That which is valued or highly esteemed, as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
• n. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
• n. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
• n. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
• n. Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
• n. Precise meaning; import.
• n. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically,…
• n. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
• n. (obsolete) valour; also spelled valew.
• v. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
• v. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
• v. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
• v. To hold dear.

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).

write

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To send written information to.
• v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
• v. (intransitive) To be an author.
• v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
• v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
• v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
• v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
• n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.