Synonyms of the word

straw

• n. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
• n. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
• n. (countable) A drinking straw.
• n. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• n. (figuratively) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
• adj. Made of straw.
• adj. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• adj. (figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.

chaff

• n. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
• n. By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
• n. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil, dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with…
• n. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• v. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to…

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

distribute

• v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
• v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
• v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
• v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
• v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
• v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
• v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
• v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
• v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

husk

• n. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating…
• n. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
• n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
• v. (transitive) To remove husks from.
• n. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm.
• v. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
• v. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

shuck

• n. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
• n. (slang) A phony.
• v. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

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.

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

strew

• v. To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
• v. To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
• v. (transitive) To spread abroad; to disseminate.

stubble

• n. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

tube

• n. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
• n. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and…
• n. (Britain, colloquial, often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred…
• n. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).
• n. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.
• v. To make or use tubes.

tubing

• n. tubes, considered as a group.
• n. a length of tube, or a system of tubes.
• n. the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube.
• v. present participle of tube.

yellow

• adj. Having yellow as its colour.
• adj. (informal) Lacking courage.
• adj. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
• adj. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
• adj. (dated, US) High yellow.
• adj. (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
• n. The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting…
• n. (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that…
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
• n. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally…
• n. (sports) A yellow card.
• v. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

yellowness

• n. The state or quality of being yellow.
• n. (obsolete) jealousy.