Synonyms of the word

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

ancestry

• n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
• n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

area

• n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
• n. A particular geographic region.
• n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
• n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
• n. (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
• n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
• n. (slang) Genitals.

aspect

• n. Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
• n. The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
• n. The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
• n. A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
• n. One's appearance or expression.
• n. Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction;…
• n. Prospect; outlook.
• n. (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal…
• n. (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular…
• n. (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
• n. (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
• n. (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a…

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

blood

• n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen…
• n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to…
• n. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
• n. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
• n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
• n. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
• n. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
• n. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
• v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
• v. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
• v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

bloodline

• n. The abstract link between a person and their ancestors.
• n. The pedigree of an animal.
• n. By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.

broadside

• n. (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous…
• n. (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
• n. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
• n. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
• adv. Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
• v. (transitive) To collide with something sideways on.

choose

• v. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
• v. To elect.
• v. To decide to act in a certain way.
• v. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
• conj. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

endorse

• v. To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
• v. To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it…
• v. To give an endorsement.
• n. (heraldry) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

face

• n. (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
• n. One's facial expression.
• n. The public image; outward appearance.
• n. The frontal aspect of something.
• n. (figuratively) Presence; sight; front.
• n. The directed force of something.
• n. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
• n. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
• n. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
• n. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces…
• n. Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
• n. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
• n. (slang) The mouth.
• n. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) Short for baby face. A wrestler whose on-ring persona is embodying heroic…
• n. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
• n. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
• n. (card games) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same…
• n. (heraldry) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
• n. (typography) A typeface.
• n. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
• n. (computing) An interface.
• n. The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
• v. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to…
• v. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
• v. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opponent.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
• v. (obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
• v. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
• v. To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
• v. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception,…
• v. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting,…

facet

• n. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
• n. One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
• n. One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
• n. (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
• n. (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
• n. (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion.
• n. (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
• n. (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
• v. To cut a facet into a gemstone.

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

indorse

• v. (Britain, India, rare) Alternative form of endorse.

lateral

• adj. To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the left or right of the body; further from the midline.
• adj. (phonetics, phonology) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream…
• n. An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
• n. (linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
• n. (American football) A lateral pass.
• n. (business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous…
• v. To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.
• v. (American football) To execute a lateral pass.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

lineage

• n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line…
• n. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

opinion

• n. A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
• n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
• n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
• n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
• n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially…
• n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

parentage

• n. The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
• n. The social quality of one's class in society.
• n. origin; derivation.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

pedigree

• n. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
• n. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
• n. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
• n. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
• n. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
• adj. Having a pedigree.
• adj. Purebred.

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.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

region

• n. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable…
• n. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
• n. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number…
• n. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
• n. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
• n. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
• n. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental…

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

select

• adj. Privileged, specially selected.
• adj. Of high quality; top-notch.
• v. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
• v. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

sidelong

• adj. Directed to the side; sideways.
• adj. Slanting or sloping; oblique.
• adj. Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
• adv. Towards the side; sideways.
• adv. obliquely.

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

spin

• v. (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another…
• v. (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
• v. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable…
• v. (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
• v. (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
• v. (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar.
• v. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent…
• v. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against…
• v. To move swiftly.
• v. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
• v. To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
• v. (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
• n. Circular motion.
• n. (physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic…
• n. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
• n. (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
• n. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning…
• n. A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
• n. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
• n. A single play of a record by a radio station.
• n. (dated) Unmarried woman, spinster.

stemma

• n. A family tree or recorded genealogy.
• n. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
• n. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

stock

• n. A store or supply.
• n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
• n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
• n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
• n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• n. A bar, stick or rod.
• n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
• n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
• n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
• n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
• n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
• n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
• n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
• n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
• n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
• n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
• n. The beater of a fulling mill.
• v. To have on hand for sale.
• v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
• v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
• v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
• v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
• v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
• adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
• adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
• adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
• n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

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.

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

take

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

unit

• n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
• n. The number one.
• n. Clipping of international unit.
• n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
• n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
• n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
• n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
• n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
• n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
• n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
• n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
• n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
• n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
• n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
• n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
• n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
• n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
• adj. For each unit.
• adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.