Synonyms of the word

tack

• n. A small nail with a flat head.
• n. A thumbtack.
• n. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
• n. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
• n. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
• n. A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
• n. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes…
• n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
• n. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled;…
• n. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated…
• n. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive…
• n. Hardtack.
• n. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
• n. (law, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
• n. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
• v. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
• v. To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
• v. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes…
• v. To add something as an extra item.
• v. Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
• n. A stain; a tache.
• n. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
• n. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

aim

• n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
• n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
• n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
• n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
• n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
• v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
• v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
• v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
• v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
• v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
• n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

alternate

• adj. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one…
• adj. (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another…
• adj. (US) Other; alternative.
• adj. (botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects…
• n. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
• n. (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing…
• n. (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
• n. (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
• n. (heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
• v. (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed…
• v. (intransitive) To vary by turns.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation);…

append

• v. (transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended;.
• v. (transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex.
• v. (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other non-constant data type.
• n. (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

appurtenance

• n. An appendage added to something else.
• n. (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
• n. The thing to which another pertains.
• n. (law) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold.
• n. (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

assemble

• v. (transitive) To put together.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.
• v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

baste

• v. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
• v. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
• v. (by extension) To coat over something.
• v. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
• v. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

bearing

• adj. That which bears (whatever this combining form combines with).
• adj. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
• n. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
• n. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or…
• n. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
• n. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
• n. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
• n. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
• n. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
• n. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
• n. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
• v. present participle of bear.

create

• v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
• v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
• v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
• v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
• adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

flip

• n. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
• n. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
• n. (US, slang) A slingshot.
• v. (transitive) To throw (as in to turn over).
• v. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
• v. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
• v. To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
• v. (computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
• interj. (Britain, mildly vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
• adj. Sarcastic.
• adj. (informal) Disrespectful.
• n. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog).

flip-flop

• n. (US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
• n. (computing, electronics) An electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching…
• n. A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour.
• v. To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.

gear

• n. (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
• n. Clothing; garments.
• n. (obsolete) goods; property; household items.
• n. (countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices…
• n. (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio…
• n. (countable) a configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of…
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, including steroids.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) stuff.
• n. (obsolete) business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear…
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
• v. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• adj. (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic.

heading

• v. present participle of head.
• n. The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
• n. (nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading)…
• n. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
• n. (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
• n. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
• n. (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

interchange

• n. An act of interchanging.
• n. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
• n. (rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at…
• v. (transitive) to switch (each of two things).
• v. (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange.
• v. (intransitive) to swap or change places.
• v. (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary.

join

• v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
• v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
• v. (transitive) To become a member of.
• v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• v. To unite in marriage.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
• v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
• n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
• n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

mainsheet

• n. (nautical) The rope connected to and controlling the mainsail.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

nail

• n. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
• n. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
• n. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
• n. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven…
• n. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The…
• n. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5…
• v. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
• v. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
• v. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
• v. (slang) To catch.
• v. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
• v. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
• v. (transitive, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. To spike, as a cannon.

paraphernalia

• n. (plural only) Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity;…
• n. (archaic) Things a woman owns, apart from her dowry.

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

saddlery

• n. (uncountable) The trade or craft of a saddler.
• n. A place of business of a saddler.
• n. The inventory and equipment of a saddler.

sail

• n. (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the…
• n. (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
• n. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
• n. (dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail.
• n. The blade of a windmill.
• n. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
• n. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
• n. (fishing) A sailfish.
• n. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids.
• n. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
• v. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled…
• v. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
• v. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
• v. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
• v. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
• v. To move briskly.

sailing

• n. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.
• n. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel.
• n. the time of departure from a port.
• n. (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
• adj. Travelling by ship.
• v. present participle of sail.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

sew

• v. (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them…
• v. (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them…
• v. (transitive) To enclose by sewing.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To drain the water from.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.

sheet

• n. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
• n. A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping,…
• n. A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
• n. A thin, flat layer of solid material.
• n. A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
• n. (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
• n. (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
• n. (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
• n. (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
• n. (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
• n. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
• n. (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
• v. To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
• v. Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
• v. (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

shroud

• n. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
• n. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
• n. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
• n. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
• n. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
• n. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
• n. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets;…
• v. To cover with a shroud.
• v. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
• v. To take shelter or harbour.

stitch

• n. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
• n. (sports) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling…
• n. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
• n. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
• n. Hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
• n. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
• n. (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
• n. (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or dress.
• n. A furrow.
• v. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of…
• v. To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
• v. (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
• v. (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
• v. (computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

switch

• n. A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
• n. A change.
• n. (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one…
• n. A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in…
• n. (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
• n. (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of…
• n. (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously,…
• n. (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows…
• n. (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role.
• n. A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly…
• v. (transitive) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
• v. (transitive) To whip or hit with a switch.
• v. (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
• v. To swing or whisk.
• v. To be swung or whisked.
• v. To trim.
• v. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
• v. (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
• adj. (snowboarding) riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.

tacking

• n. loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.
• n. (nautical) the act of changing tack.
• n. (law) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate…
• v. present participle of tack.

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.