Synonyms of the word seat


SEATACCOMMODATE - ADMIT - ARSE - ASS - BACKSIDE - BEHIND - BOTTOM - BUM - BUNS - BUTT - BUTTOCKS - CAN - CENTER - CENTRE - DERRIERE - EYE - FANNY - FUNDAMENT - FURNISH - FURNITURE - HEART - HINDQUARTERS - HOLD - INDUCT - INSTALL - INVEST - KEISTER - LAY - MIDDLE - NATES - PLACE - POSE - POSITION - POSTERIOR - PRAT - PROVIDE - PUT - REAR - RENDER - RUMP - SET - SIT - SPACE - STERN - SUPPLY - SUPPORT - TAIL - TUSH

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.

accommodate

  • v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
  • v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
  • v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
  • v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
  • v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
  • v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
  • v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  • adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

admit

  • v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
  • v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
  • v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
  • v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
  • v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
  • v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

arse

  • n. (dated in New England, current in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, now slang) The buttocks or…
  • n. (chiefly Britain, pejorative slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
  • v. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

ass

  • n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
  • n. (slang) A stupid person.
  • n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
  • n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
  • n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
  • n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
  • n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
  • n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.

backside

  • n. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
  • n. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.

behind

  • prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
  • prep. To the back of.
  • prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
  • prep. responsible for.
  • prep. In support of.
  • prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
  • adv. At the back part; in the rear.
  • adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
  • adv. Overdue, in arrears.
  • adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
  • adv. existing afterwards.
  • adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
  • adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
  • adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
  • n. the rear, back-end.
  • n. butt, the buttocks, bottom.
  • n. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
  • n. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick…

bottom

  • n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
  • n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
  • n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
  • n. The buttocks or anus.
  • n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
  • n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
  • n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
  • n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
  • n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
  • n. (physics) A bottom quark.
  • n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
  • n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
  • n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
  • n. An abyss.
  • n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
  • n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
  • v. To fall to the lowest point.
  • v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
  • v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
  • v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
  • v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
  • v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
  • adj. The lowest or last place or position.

bum

  • n. The buttocks.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
  • n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
  • interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
  • n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
  • n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
  • n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
  • n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
  • n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
  • v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
  • adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
  • adj. Unfair.
  • adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
  • adj. Unpleasant.
  • v. To depress; to make unhappy.
  • n. (dated) A humming noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
  • n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

buns

  • n. plural of bun.
  • n. (informal) buttocks.

butt

  • n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
  • n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
  • n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
  • n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
  • v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
  • v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
  • n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
  • n. A thrust in fencing.
  • n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
  • n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
  • n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
  • n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
  • n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

buttocks

  • n. plural of buttock.

can

  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
  • n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
  • n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  • n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  • n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
  • n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
  • n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
  • n. (slang) Jail or prison.
  • n. (slang) Headphones.
  • n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
  • n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
  • v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
  • v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
  • v. To shut up.
  • v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

center

  • n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  • n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  • n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  • n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  • n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
  • n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
  • n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  • n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
  • n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
  • n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
  • n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
  • n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
  • n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
  • n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
  • n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
  • n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
  • n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
  • adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
  • v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
  • v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
  • v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centre

  • n. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…
  • v. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…

derriere

  • n. (humorous) bottom, bum.

eye

  • n. An organ through which animals see.
  • n. The visual sense.
  • n. Attention, notice.
  • n. The ability to notice what others might miss.
  • n. A meaningful stare or look.
  • n. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
  • n. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
  • n. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage…
  • n. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.
  • n. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
  • n. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
  • n. A reproductive bud in a potato.
  • n. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
  • n. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc…
  • n. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
  • n. Tinge; shade of colour.
  • n. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
  • n. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
  • n. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
  • v. To observe carefully.
  • v. To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.
  • v. To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
  • v. (obsolete) To appear; to look.
  • n. A brood.

fanny

  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.
  • n. (Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
  • n. (Britain, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
  • n. (Britain, vulgar) A woman, or women generally, as a sexual object(s).
  • n. (Britain, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.

fundament

  • n. Foundation.
  • n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
  • n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

furnish

  • n. Material used to create an engineered product.
  • v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

furniture

  • n. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics,…
  • n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
  • n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
  • n. (firearms) the stock and forearm of a weapon.

heart

  • n. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of…
  • n. (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
  • n. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage,…
  • n. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  • n. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  • n. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
  • n. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
  • n. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  • n. The centre, essence, or core.
  • v. (transitive, poetic or humorous) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
  • v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
  • v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce…

hindquarters

  • n. plural of hindquarter.

hold

  • adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To contain or store.
  • v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
  • v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
  • v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
  • v. To take place, to occur.
  • v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
  • v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
  • n. A grasp or grip.
  • n. A place where animals are held for safety.
  • n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
  • n. Something reserved or kept.
  • n. Power over someone or something.
  • n. The ability to persist.
  • n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
  • n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
  • n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
  • n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
  • n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
  • n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
  • n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
  • n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
  • n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
  • n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

induct

  • v. to bring in as a member; to make a part of.
  • v. to formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, et cetera.
  • v. to introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood…
  • v. to draft into military service.
  • v. (obsolete) to introduce; to bring in.

install

  • n. (computing) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
  • n. (informal) an installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.).
  • v. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
  • v. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
  • v. (transitive) To establish or settle in.

invest

  • v. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
  • v. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
  • v. (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
  • v. To envelop, wrap, cover.
  • v. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
  • v. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
  • v. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
  • v. To formally give (power or authority).
  • v. To surround, accompany, or attend.
  • v. To lay siege to.
  • v. (intransitive) To make investments.
  • v. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand…
  • n. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant…

keister

  • n. (slang) The anus or buttocks.
  • n. (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
  • n. (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
  • v. (slang) To conceal something in one's rectum.

lay

  • v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
  • v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
  • v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
  • v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
  • v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
  • v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
  • v. (law) To state; to allege.
  • v. (military) To point; to aim.
  • v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
  • v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
  • v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
  • v. To apply; to put.
  • v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
  • v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
  • v. To present or offer.
  • n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
  • n. A share of the profits in a business.
  • n. The direction a rope is twisted.
  • n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
  • n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
  • n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
  • n. A lake.
  • adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
  • adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
  • v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
  • v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
  • n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
  • n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
  • n. (obsolete) A law.
  • n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
  • v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

middle

  • n. A centre, midpoint.
  • n. The part between the beginning and the end.
  • n. (cricket) The middle stump.
  • n. The central part of a human body.
  • n. (grammar) The middle voice.
  • adj. Located in the middle; in between.
  • adj. Central.
  • adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

nates

  • n. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals;…
  • n. The buttocks.
  • n. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

place

  • n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
  • n. A location or position in space.
  • n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
  • n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
  • n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
  • n. A frame of mind.
  • n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
  • n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
  • n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
  • n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
  • n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
  • n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
  • v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
  • v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
  • v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
  • v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
  • v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
  • v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pose

  • n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
  • v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
  • v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
  • n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
  • n. Affectation.
  • v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
  • v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
  • v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

  • n. A place or location.
  • n. A post of employment; a job.
  • n. A status or rank.
  • n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
  • n. A posture.
  • n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
  • n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
  • n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
  • n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
  • v. To put into place.

posterior

  • adj. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.
  • adj. Following in order or in time.
  • adj. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
  • adj. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
  • n. (euphemistic) The buttocks.

prat

  • n. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
  • adj. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.
  • n. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
  • n. (Britain, slang) A fool.
  • n. (slang) The female genitals.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

put

  • v. To place something somewhere.
  • v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
  • v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
  • v. To express something in a certain manner.
  • v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
  • v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  • v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
  • v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
  • v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  • v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
  • v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  • v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
  • n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
  • n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
  • n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
  • n. An old card game.
  • n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
  • n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

rear

  • v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
  • v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
  • v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
  • v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
  • v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
  • v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
  • v. (transitive) To move; stir.
  • v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
  • v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
  • adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
  • adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
  • adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
  • n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
  • n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  • n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
  • v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

rump

  • n. The hindquarters of an animal.
  • n. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
  • n. The buttocks.
  • n. Remnant, as in rump parliament.

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.

sit

  • v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the…
  • v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
  • v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
  • v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
  • v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
  • v. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
  • v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
  • v. To be adjusted; to fit.
  • v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
  • v. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
  • v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit.
  • v. (transitive, US) To babysit.
  • v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
  • v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
  • v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture…
  • v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
  • n. (rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

space

  • n. (heading) Of time.
  • n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
  • n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
  • v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
  • v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
  • v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

stern

  • adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
  • adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
  • n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
  • n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
  • n. The hinder part of anything.
  • n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
  • n. A bird, the black tern.

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

support

  • n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
  • n. Financial or other help.
  • n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
  • n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
  • n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
  • n. Evidence.
  • n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
  • n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
  • v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
  • v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
  • v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
  • v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
  • v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
  • v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
  • v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
  • v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
  • v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
  • v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

tail

  • n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  • n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
  • n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  • n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  • n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  • n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  • n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  • n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  • n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
  • n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  • n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
  • n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
  • n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
  • n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  • n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  • n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
  • n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  • n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  • n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  • n. (mining) A tailing.
  • n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
  • v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  • v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
  • v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  • v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  • v. To pull or draw by the tail.
  • adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
  • n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tush

  • n. (now dialectal) A tusk.
  • n. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
  • n. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
  • interj. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke.
  • n. (Britain, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
  • v. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete slang) Alternative form of tosheroon.

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