Synonyms of the word

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

alteration

• n. The act of altering or making different.
• n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

budge

• v. (intransitive) To move.
• v. (transitive) To move.
• v. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
• v. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
• adj. (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
• n. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament,…
• adj. (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics.

careen

• v. (nautical) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles…
• v. (nautical) To tilt on one side.
• v. To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
• v. To tilt or lean while in motion.
• v. To career, to move rapidly straight ahead.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

chemise

• n. (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
• n. A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
• n. A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
• n. A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

cleft

• n. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
• n. A piece made by splitting.
• n. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cleave.

crack

• v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
• v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
• v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
• v. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
• v. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
• v. (transitive) To open slightly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative).
• v. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.).
• v. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
• v. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
• v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application…
• v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
• v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
• v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
• v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
• n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• n. A narrow opening.
• n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
• n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
• n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
• n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
• n. (informal) An attempt at something.
• n. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
• n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous…
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news.
• n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
• n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
• n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
• n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
• n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
• n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
• n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
• n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
• n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
• adj. Highly trained and competent.
• adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

crevice

• n. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
• v. To crack; to flaw.

crew

• n. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a…
• n. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
• n. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
• n. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
• n. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
• n. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
• n. A group of people working together on a task.
• n. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
• n. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
• n. (informal) A group of people, especially friends or associates.
• n. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
• n. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group.
• n. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
• n. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew.
• v. To be a member of a work or production crew.
• v. To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
• v. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor.
• v. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew.
• v. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs.
• n. The Manx shearwater.

dislodge

• v. (transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To force out of a secure or settled position.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

displacement

• n. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
• n. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced…
• n. (chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a…
• n. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
• n. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
• n. (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed…

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

faulting

• v. present participle of fault.
• n. Formation of a geological fault.

fissure

• n. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
• n. (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
• v. To split, forming fissures.

fracture

• n. the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage.
• n. (geology) a fault or crack in a rock.
• v. to break, or cause something to break.

frock

• n. A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
• n. An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals, a habit.
• v. To clothe in a frock.
• v. To make a cleric.
• n. (dialectal) A frog.

gang

• v. (intransitive, chiefly Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.
• n. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
• n. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• n. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
• n. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.
• n. (US) A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with…
• n. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit, or a group…
• n. (US) A chain gang.
• n. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor;…
• n. A set; all required for an outfit.
• n. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
• n. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
• n. (mining) The mineral substance which encloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
• v. (intransitive) To band together as a group or gang.
• v. (transitive) to attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of gan.
• v. Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.

hours

• n. plural of hour.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

lurch

• n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
• v. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
• v. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
• n. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
• n. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
• v. (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
• v. (obsolete) To steal; to rob.

modification

• n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
• n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
• n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
• n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
• n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

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…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

replace

• v. (transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back.
• v. (transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore.
• v. (transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
• v. (transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
• v. (transitive) To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
• v. (transitive, rare) To place again.
• v. (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place.

reposition

• v. To put into a new position.
• n. The act of putting into a new position.

sack

• n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
• n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
• n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
• n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
• n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense⁴ below.
• n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
• n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
• n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
• n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
• n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
• v. To put in a sack or sacks.
• v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
• v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
• v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
• v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
• n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
• v. Alternative spelling of sac.
• n. Alternative spelling of sac.

scissure

• n. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

shifting

• n. A shift or change; a shifting movement.
• v. present participle of shift.

shimmy

• n. A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
• n. An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
• n. A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
• n. (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
• v. (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
• v. To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
• v. (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
• v. (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on…

slip

• n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
• n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
• n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
• n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
• n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
• n. A long, thin piece of something.
• n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
• n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
• v. (intransitive) To err.
• v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
• v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
• v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
• v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
• v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
• v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
• v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
• n. An act or instance of slipping.
• n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
• n. A slipdress.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
• n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
• n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
• n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
• n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
• n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
• n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
• n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
• n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
• n. An outside covering or case.
• n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
• n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
• n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
• n. A particular quantity of yarn.
• n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
• n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
• n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
• n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
• n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
• n. A fish, the sole.

stir

• v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
• v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
• v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
• v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
• v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
• n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
• n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
• n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
• n. (slang) Jail; prison.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

switch

• n. A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
• n. A change.
• n. (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one…
• n. A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in…
• n. (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
• n. (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of…
• n. (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously,…
• n. (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows…
• n. (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role.
• n. A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly…
• v. (transitive) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
• v. (transitive) To whip or hit with a switch.
• v. (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
• v. To swing or whisk.
• v. To be swung or whisked.
• v. To trim.
• v. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
• v. (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
• adj. (snowboarding) riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.

switching

• v. present participle of switch.
• n. a beating by means of a switch (twig or twigs).
• n. movement of an animal's tail.
• n. the transference of an investment from one fund to another.
• n. the movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
• n. change from one product / service provider to another.

teddy

• n. Abbreviation of teddy bear.
• n. By extension, any stuffed toy.
• n. A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

transfer

• v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
• v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
• v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
• n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
• n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
• n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
• n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
• n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
• n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

transformation

• n. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
• n. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
• n. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of…
• n. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived…
• n. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if…
• n. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist…

translation

• n. (uncountable) The act or (countable) an act of translating, in its various senses.
• n. (countable) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.

transmutation

• n. (obsolete) Change, alteration.
• n. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
• n. (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base…
• n. (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.

type

• n. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
• n. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment,…
• n. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
• n. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
• n. (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to…
• n. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
• n. (medicine) A blood group.
• n. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament…
• n. (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can…
• n. (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject…
• n. (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded…
• n. (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence…
• v. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
• v. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
• v. To determine the blood type of.
• v. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
• v. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

typewrite

• v. (transitive or intransitive) To type using a typewriter.

undergarment

• n. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
• n. (religion, in the plural) Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

unmentionable

• adj. Not mentionable.

wobble

• n. An unsteady motion.
• n. A tremulous sound.
• n. (music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
• v. (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
• v. (intransitive) To tremble or quaver.
• v. (intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.
• v. (transitive) To cause to wobble.