Synonyms of the word

splay

• v. To display; to spread.
• v. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
• v. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
• v. (computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the…
• adj. spread out; turned outward.
• adj. flat and ungainly.
• n. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at…

bevel

• n. An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90 degree angle; a chamfer.
• n. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle,…
• v. (transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.
• adj. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
• adj. Morally distorted; not upright.

cant

• n. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
• n. Shelta.
• n. (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
• n. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
• n. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some…
• n. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
• v. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
• v. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
• v. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
• v. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
• v. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
• n. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
• n. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
• n. A corner (of a building).
• n. An outer or external angle.
• n. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
• n. A movement or throw that overturns something.
• n. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias…
• n. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
• n. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
• n. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
• v. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
• v. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
• v. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
• v. (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) lively, lusty.

chamfer

• n. (woodworking, engineering, drafting, CAD) an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished…
• v. (transitive) to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel.
• v. (transitive) to cut a groove in something; to flute.

dislocate

• v. to put something out of its usual place.
• v. (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

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.

luxate

• v. To dislocate.
• adj. Dislocated.

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…

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

rotate

• v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
• v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
• v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
• v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
• v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
• v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
• adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

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.

splayfoot

• n. A deformity in which the feet are abnormally flat and turned outwards.
• n. Such a foot.

splayfooted

• adj. Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

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.

unfold

• v. To undo a folding.
• v. (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details,…
• v. To release from a fold or pen.
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite…