Synonyms of the word

serve

• n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
• v. (heading) To be effective.
• v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
• v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
• v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
• v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
• v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

aid

• n. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
• n. (countable) A helper; an assistant.
• n. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
• n. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose,…
• n. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
• n. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
• n. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
• v. (transitive) To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

answer

• n. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
• n. A solution to a problem.
• n. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
• v. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
• v. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
• v. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
• v. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
• v. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
• v. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform;…
• v. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification;…
• v. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
• v. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
• v. (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
• v. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

assist

• v. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
• v. (archaic) To attend (with at).
• v. To help.
• v. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
• v. (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
• n. A helpful action or an act of giving.
• n. (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals.

attend

• v. (archaic, transitive) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To listen (to, unto).
• v. (intransitive) To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look…
• v. (transitive) To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
• v. (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings;…
• v. (intransitive, law) To go to (a place) for some purpose (with at).
• v. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
• v. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
• v. Alternative form of atend ("to kindle").

cater

• v. (transitive) To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
• v. (transitive, often with to) To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
• n. (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
• v. (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
• n. (card games, dice games) The four of cards or dice.

copulate

• v. To engage in sexual intercourse.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
• adj. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

couple

• n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• n. (informal) A small number.
• n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic…
• n. (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel…
• n. (architecture) A couple-close.
• n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
• adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
• v. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
• v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

deliver

• v. To set free.
• v. (process) To do with birth.
• v. To free from or disburden of anything.
• v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
• v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
• v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
• v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
• v. To discover; to show.
• v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
• v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

dish

• n. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
• n. The contents of such a vessel.
• n. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
• n. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed…
• n. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish.
• n. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
• n. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
• n. A hollow place, as in a field.
• n. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
• n. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
• n. (slang) Gossip.
• v. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
• v. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
• v. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
• v. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

effect

• n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below.
• n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
• n. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
• n. (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect").
• n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced…
• n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
• n. (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
• n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
• n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
• n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
• v. To make or bring about; to implement.
• v. Misspelling of affect.

effectuate

• v. (transitive) To be the cause of something.
• v. (transitive) To bring about something; to effect or execute something.

foster

• adj. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
• adj. Receiving such care.
• adj. Related by such care.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A forester.
• n. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
• v. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
• v. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
• v. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

fulfil

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

fulfill

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

function

• n. What something does or is used for.
• n. A professional or official position.
• n. An official or social occasion.
• n. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
• n. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of…
• n. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
• n. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
• n. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
• n. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
• v. (intransitive) to have a function.
• v. (intransitive) to carry on a function; to be in action.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

help

• n. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
• n. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
• n. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
• n. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation…
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social…
• v. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
• v. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
• v. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive…
• interj. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.

mate

• n. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• n. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address…
• n. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's…
• n. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
• n. (nautical) A first mate.
• n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
• n. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
• n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
• v. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate.
• v. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
• v. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
• v. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
• v. (transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
• v. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
• v. (transitive, aeronautics, space) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can…
• n. (chess) Short for checkmate.
• v. (intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate.
• v. To confuse; to confound.
• n. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
• n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

nurture

• n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
• n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
• n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
• v. To nourish or nurse.
• v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

operate

• v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
• v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

pair

• n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• n. Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
• n. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale…
• n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
• n. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better…
• n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
• n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
• n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
• n. (slang) A pair of breasts.
• n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of…
• n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote…
• n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
• n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually…
• v. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
• v. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
• v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices.
• v. (obsolete) To impair.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

ply

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

process

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

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.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

satisfy

• v. (transitive) To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
• v. (dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
• v. (transitive) To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
• v. (transitive) To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.

serve

• n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
• v. (heading) To be effective.
• v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
• v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
• v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
• v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
• v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

service

• n. An act of being of assistance to someone.
• n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
• n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
• n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
• n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
• n. The military.
• n. A set of dishes or utensils.
• n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other…
• n. A religious rite or ritual.
• n. (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
• n. (Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Israel, West Bank) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom…
• n. A musical composition for use in churches.
• n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
• n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
• v. (transitive) To serve.
• v. (transitive) To perform maintenance.
• v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
• n. service tree.

spend

• v. To pay out (money).
• v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
• v. (dated) To squander.
• v. To exhaust, to wear out.
• v. To consume, to use up (time).
• v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
• v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
• v. To be diffused; to spread.
• v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
• n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure.
• n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
• n. Discharged semen.
• n. Vaginal discharge.

suffice

• v. (intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed;…
• v. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
• v. To furnish; to supply adequately.

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.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.