Synonyms of the word

spark

• n. A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
• n. A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
• n. A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
• n. (figuratively) A small amount of something, such as an idea, that has the potential to become something…
• n. (in plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.
• n. (Britain, slang) An electrician.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
• v. (transitive) To light; to kindle.
• v. (intransitive) To give off a spark or sparks.
• n. A gallant, a foppish young man.
• n. A beau, lover.
• v. To woo, court.

activate

• v. To put into action, to put to work.
• v. To turn on.

actuate

• v. (transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.

arc

• n. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and…
• n. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve.
• n. A curve, in general.
• n. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
• n. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between…
• n. A story arc.
• n. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
• n. (graph theory) A directed edge.
• n. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
• v. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
• v. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

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…

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

expression

• n. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
• n. A colloquialism or idiom.
• n. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
• n. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
• n. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
• n. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
• n. Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.
• n. A specific blend of whisky.

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,…

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

flicker

• n. An unsteady flash of light.
• n. A short moment.
• v. (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light.
• v. (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
• v. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
• n. (US) A certain type of small woodpecker, especially of the genus Colaptes.
• n. One who flicks.

fragment

• n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
• n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
• n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
• v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

glint

• n. A short flash of light.
• adj. (archaic, Shropshire, of a blade) Not sharp; dull.
• v. To flash briefly.
• v. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
• v. (archaic, Shropshire) To dry; to wither.

hint

• n. A clue.
• n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
• n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
• n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
• n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
• v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
• v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
• v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

look

• v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• v. To appear, to seem.
• v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
• v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
• v. To face or present a view.
• v. To expect or anticipate.
• v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
• v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
• v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
• v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
• interj. Pay attention.
• n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
• n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
• n. A facial expression.

pioneer

• n. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
• n. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
• n. (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as…
• n. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
• n. (communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming…
• v. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

sparkle

• n. A little spark; a scintillation.
• n. Brilliance; luster.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles.
• v. (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
• v. (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce.
• v. (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.

suggestion

• n. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
• n. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
• n. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
• n. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

trace

• n. An act of tracing.
• n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
• n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
• n. A very small amount.
• n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
• n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
• n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
• n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
• n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
• n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
• n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
• v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
• v. To follow the history of.
• v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
• v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
• v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

trigger

• n. A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
• n. A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
• n. An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
• n. A concept or image that upsets somebody.
• n. (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person.
• n. (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
• n. (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically…
• n. (online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain…
• n. (archaic) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
• v. (transitive) To fire a weapon.
• v. (transitive) To initiate something.
• v. (transitive) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).

trip

• n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• n. A stumble or misstep.
• n. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
• n. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• n. A faux pas, a social error.
• n. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• n. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
• n. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
• n. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• n. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
• n. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• n. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
• n. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
• n. A flock of wigeons.
• v. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
• v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
• v. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety,…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
• v. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
• v. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
• v. (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
• v. (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
• adj. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips.

twinkle

• v. (of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
• v. (chiefly of eyes) to be bright with delight.
• v. to bat, blink or wink the eyes.
• v. to flit to and fro.
• n. a sparkle or glimmer of light.
• n. a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
• n. a flitting movement.

verve

• n. Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing.
• n. artistic energy and enthusiasm.
• n. vigour, vitality and liveliness.
• n. rapture, enthusiasm.
• n. spirit, energy.

vitality

• n. The capacity to live and develop.
• n. Energy or vigour.
• n. That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

writer

• n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
• n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
• n. Anything that writes or produces output.