Synonyms of the word

spine

• n. The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to…
• n. Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures…
• n. A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
• n. (figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
• n. The stiffness of an arrow.

acantha

• n. (botany) A prickle.
• n. (zoology) A spine or prickly fin.
• n. (anatomy) A spinous process of a vertebra.

aculeus

• n. (botany) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
• n. A sting.

appendage

• n. an external body part that projects from the body.
• n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
• n. a part that is joined to something larger.

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.

backbone

• n. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down…
• n. Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
• n. Courage, fortitude, or strength.

outgrowth

• n. Anything that grows out of something else.

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.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

pricker

• n. One who pricks.
• n. A tool for pricking.
• n. A prickle or thorn.
• n. One who spurs forward; a light horseman.
• n. A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.
• n. (nautical) A small marlinespike used in sailmaking.

prickle

• n. A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
• n. A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
• n. A kind of willow basket.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
• v. (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
• v. (transitive) To cause someone to feel a prickle.

process

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

projection

• n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
• n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
• n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
• n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
• n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
• n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
• n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
• n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
• n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
• n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
• n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

rachis

• n. (botany) The main shaft of either a compound leaf, head of grain, or fern frond.
• n. (zoology, anatomy) The spine or the vertebrae of the spine.
• n. (ornithology) The central shaft of a feather.

spikelet

• n. (botany) A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge.

spur

• n. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse…
• n. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
• n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
• n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into…
• n. Roots, tree roots.
• n. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction,…
• n. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of…
• n. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• n. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
• n. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon…
• n. Ergotized rye or other grain.
• n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted…
• n. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot…
• n. (mining) A branch of a vein.
• v. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
• v. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to…
• v. To put spurs on.
• n. (Scotland) A sparrow.
• n. A tern.
• n. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath…
• n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

sticker

• n. something that sticks.
• n. an adhesive label or decal.
• n. a brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
• n. a price tag.
• n. the listed price (also sticker price).
• n. (informal) a burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
• n. a wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation. (also 'kiln sticker').
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
• n. (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate…
• n. (US, politics) A paster.
• n. (Internet) A picture that is a detailed illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action…
• v. To apply one or more stickers to (something).
• v. To mark as the sticker price.
• adj. (nonstandard, informal) comparative form of stick: more stick (stickier).

thorn

• n. A sharp protective spine of a plant.
• n. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
• n. (figuratively) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
• n. A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent…
• v. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn.