Synonyms of the word

slue

• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
• v. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
• n. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
• n. A slough; a run or wet place.

curve

• adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
• n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
• n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
• n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
• n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
• n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
• n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
• v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
• v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
• v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
• v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

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,…

glide

• v. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
• v. (transitive) To cause to glide.
• v. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
• n. The act of gliding.
• n. (phonology) Semivowel.
• n. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant…
• n. A bird, the glede or kite.
• n. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

skid

• n. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
• n. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its…
• n. (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
• n. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
• v. (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
• v. (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

slew

• n. (US) A large amount.
• n. The act, or process of slaying.
• n. A device used for slaying.
• n. A change of position.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
• v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
• v. (intransitive) To pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To skid.
• v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
• v. simple past tense of slay.
• n. A wet place; a river inlet.

slide

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
• v. (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
• v. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
• v. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
• v. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
• n. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
• n. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
• n. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
• n. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a…
• n. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
• n. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
• n. A lever that can be moved in two directions.
• n. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
• n. A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
• n. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may…
• n. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base.
• n. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
• n. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
• n. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
• n. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal…
• n. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly…
• n. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
• n. (footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.

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.

swerve

• v. (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
• v. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
• v. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law,…
• v. To bend; to incline.
• v. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
• v. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
• v. of a projectile, to travel in a curved line.
• n. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.

trend

• n. An inclination in a particular direction.
• n. A tendency.
• n. A fad or fashion style.
• n. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
• n. (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat…
• n. (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she…
• v. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
• v. (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
• v. (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or…
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) clean wool.
• v. To cleanse, as wool.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

veer

• v. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
• n. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
• v. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
• v. (transitive) To turn.