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Synonyms of the word 
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- v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- v. (transitive) To remove.
- v. (transitive) To have sex with.
- v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- v. (transitive) To consume.
- v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
- v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
- v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- v. (transitive) To require.
- v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
- v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
- v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
- v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
- v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- v. (transitive) To move into.
- v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
- v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
- v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- v. (transitive) To deal with.
- v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
- v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
- v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
- v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
- n. The or an act of taking.
- n. Something that is taken; a haul.
- n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
- n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
- n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
- n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
abide- v. Accept, comply or act in accordance.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
- v. (intransitive) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition;…
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
- v. (intransitive) To endure; to remain; to last.
- v. (transitive) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
- v. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
- v. (transitive) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
- v. (transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
- v. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
- v. A component in at least one phrasal verb: abide by.
accept- v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
- v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- v. (transitive) To receive officially.
- v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
- adj. (obsolete) Accepted.
acquire- v. (transitive) To get.
- v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
- v. (medicine) To contract.
- v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
act- n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
- n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
- n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- n. The process of doing something.
- n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
- n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- n. (countable) Any organized activity.
- n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
- n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
- n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- v. (intransitive) To do something.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
- v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
- v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- v. (transitive) To play (a role).
- v. (transitive) To feign.
- v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
admit- v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
- v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
- v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
- v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
- v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
- v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.
adopt- v. (transitive, with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend,…
- v. (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…
- v. (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- v. (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- v. (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- v. (transitive) To select and take or approve.
affirm- v. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
- v. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
- v. To support or encourage.
- v. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or…
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.
apply- v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
- v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
- v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
- v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
- v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
- v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
- v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
- v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
- v. (obsolete) To visit.
- adj. Alternative spelling of appley.
ask- v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- v. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- v. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- v. To request or petition; usually with for.
- v. To request permission to do something.
- v. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- v. To invite.
- v. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- v. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- n. An act or instance of asking.
- n. Something asked or asked for; a request.
- n. An asking price.
- n. (Britain dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
- n. (Britain dialectal) A lizard.
assert- n. (computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is…
- v. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- v. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- v. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
- v. (computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1.
assume- v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
- v. To take on a position, duty or form.
- v. To adopt a feigned quality or manner.
- v. To receive or adopt.
- v. To adopt an idea or cause.
aver- n. (obsolete) Possessions, property, belongings, wealth.
- v. To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
- v. (law) To prove or justify a plea.
- v. (obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.
- n. (dialectal) A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.
avow- v. (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess…
- v. (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.
- v. (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
- n. (obsolete) avowal.
bang- n. A sudden percussive noise.
- n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- n. An explosion.
- n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
- n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
- n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
- v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
- v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- adv. Right, directly.
- adv. Precisely.
- adv. With a sudden impact.
- interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
- n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.
be- v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
- v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
- v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
- v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
- v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
- v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
- v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…
bear- n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
- n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
- n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
- n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
- n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
- v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
- v. (transitive) To carry something.
- v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
- v. (transitive) To wear or display.
- v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
- v. (transitive) To put up with something.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
- v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
- v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
- v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
- v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
- v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
- v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
- v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
- v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
- v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
- v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
- n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).
become- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
- v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
- v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
- v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
- v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
bed- n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
- n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- n. (heading) A layer or surface.
- v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
- v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
bonk- v. (informal) To strike or collide with something.
- v. (informal, chiefly Britain) To have sexual intercourse.
- v. (skateboarding) To hit something with the front wheels of the skateboard, whilst in the air, this pre-dates…
- v. (snowboarding) To hit something (especially a tree) with one's snowboard, especially while in the air.
- v. (informal) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
- n. A bump on the head.
- n. Any minor collision or random meeting.
- n. (informal, chiefly Britain) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
bring- v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.
brook- v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
- v. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract…
- n. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- n. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
- n. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
buy- v. (transitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
- v. (transitive) To obtain by some sacrifice.
- v. (transitive) To bribe.
- v. (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
- v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe.
- v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal).
- v. (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
- n. Something which is bought; a purchase.
carry- v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
- v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
- v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
- v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
- v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
- v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
- v. To be pregnant (with).
- v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
- v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
- v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
- v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
- v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
- v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
change- v. (intransitive) To become something different.
- v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
- v. (transitive) To replace.
- v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
- v. (archaic) To exchange.
- v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
- n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
- n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
- n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
- n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
- n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
charter- n. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes…
- n. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- n. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- n. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- n. A deed (legal contract).
- n. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- adj. Leased or hired.
- v. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
- v. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
choose- v. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- v. To elect.
- v. To decide to act in a certain way.
- v. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
- conj. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
- n. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
- n. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
- n. (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.
cinematography- n. The art, process, or job of filming movies.
- n. Motion picture photography.
claim- n. A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
- n. A new statement of something you believed to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified…
- n. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush).
- n. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- v. To demand ownership of.
- v. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- v. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- v. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- v. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- v. (archaic) To proclaim.
- v. (archaic) To call or name.
conduct- n. The act or method of controlling or directing.
- n. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
- n. The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
- n. (of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
- n. (obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
- n. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
- v. (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
- v. (transitive) To lead; to direct; to manage.
- v. (transitive) (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
- v. (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.).
- v. (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
- v. (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
- v. (transitive) To carry out (something organized).
consider- v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
- v. (transitive) To think of doing.
- v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
- v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
- v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
- v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
- v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
construe- n. A translation.
- n. An interpretation.
- v. To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
- v. (grammar) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.
- v. To translate.
consume- v. (transitive) To use up.
- v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
- v. (transitive) To eat.
- v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.
contain- v. (transitive) To hold inside.
- v. (transitive) To include as a part.
- v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
- v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
contract- n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
- n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
- n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
- adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
- v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
- v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- v. To betroth; to affiance.
convey- v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
- v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
- v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
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.
cross- n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
- n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
- n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
- n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
- n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
- n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
- n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
- n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
- n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
- n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
- n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
- n. A line drawn across or through another line.
- n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
- adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
- adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- prep. (archaic) across.
- prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
- v. To make or form a cross.
- v. To move relatively.
- v. (social) To oppose.
- v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…
deal- n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
- n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- v. (baseball) To pitch.
- v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
- v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
- n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
- n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
- adj. Made of deal.
decide- v. (transitive, intransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
- v. (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
- v. (transitive) To cause someone to come to a decision.
- v. (obsolete) To cut off; to separate.
demand- n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
- n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- n. A need.
- n. A claim for something.
- n. A requirement.
- n. An urgent request.
- n. An order.
- n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a…
- v. To request forcefully.
- v. To claim a right to something.
- v. To ask forcefully for information.
- v. To require of someone.
- v. (law) To issue a summons to court.
determine- v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
- v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
- v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
- v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
- v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
- v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
- v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.
digest- v. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for…
- v. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…
- v. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive…
- v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…
- v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
- v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
- n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads…
- n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine…
- n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
direct- adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
- adj. Straightforward; sincere.
- adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
- adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
- adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
- adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
- adv. Directly.
- v. To manage, control, steer.
- v. To aim (something) at (something else).
- v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
- v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
- v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…
drive- n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
- n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
- n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
- n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
- n. A driveway.
- n. A type of public roadway.
- n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
- n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
- n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
- n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
- n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
- n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
- v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
- v. (transitive) To cause to become.
- v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
- v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
- v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.
eff- v. (euphemistic, slang) Fuck.
employ- n. The state of being an employee; employment.
- v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
- v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
- v. To make busy.
endure- v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
- v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- v. (intransitive) To last.
- v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
- v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
- v. (obsolete) To indurate.
engage- v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
- v. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
- v. (heading) To interact contractually.
- v. (heading) To interact mechanically.
- v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
enter- v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
- v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
- v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
- v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
- v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
- v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
- v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
- n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
- n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).
exact- adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor…
- adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
- adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
- adj. (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism…
- v. (transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
- v. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
- v. (transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.
- adv. exactly.
expend- v. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource).
- v. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse.
experience- n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
- n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
- n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
- n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…
feature- n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- n. An important or main item.
- n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
- n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
- n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
- n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
- v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
- v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
fill- v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- v. To enter (something), making it full.
- v. (intransitive) To become full.
- v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
- v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- n. An amount that fills a container.
- n. The filling of a container or area.
- n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
- n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
- n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
- n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
film- n. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- n. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- n. A movie.
- n. (film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.
- n. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- v. To record a motion picture on photographic film.
- v. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
filming- n. The action of the verb to film.
- v. present participle of film.
find- v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To point out.
- v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
- v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
- n. The act of finding.
fuck- v. (vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
- v. (vulgar, colloquial) To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice…
- v. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- v. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by “up”) To break; to destroy.
- v. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.
- v. (vulgar, colloquial) To play with; to tinker.
- v. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
- n. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- n. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
- n. (vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount.
- interj. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
- adv. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
- part. (vulgar, slang, especially African American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative…
get- v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To receive.
- v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- v. (copulative) To become.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- v. (transitive) To cause to do.
- v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
- v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
- v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
- v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
- v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
- v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
- v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
- v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- v. (transitive) To getter.
- v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
- v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
- v. (euphemistic) To kill.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- n. Offspring.
- n. Lineage.
- n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- n. Something gained.
- n. (Britain, regional) A git.
- n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
go- v. To move.
- v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- v. (intransitive) To attend.
- v. To proceed.
- v. To follow or travel along (a path).
- v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
- v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
- v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
- v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
- v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- v. To pass, to be used up.
- v. (intransitive) To die.
- v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
- v. To break down or apart.
- v. (intransitive) To be sold.
- v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
- v. To say (something), to make a sound.
- v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
- v. To apply or subject oneself to.
- v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
- v. (intransitive) To date.
- v. To attack.
- v. To be in general; to be usually.
- v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
- n. (uncommon) The act of going.
- n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- n. An attempt, a try.
- n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- n. An act; the working or operation.
- n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
- n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
- n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
- n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
- n. A period of activity.
- n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
- n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…
guide- n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
- n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
- n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
- v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
- v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
- v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.
have- v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
- v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
- v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
- v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
- v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
- v. To trick, to deceive.
- v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
- v. (transitive) To host someone.
head- n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
- n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
- n. A significant or important part.
- n. Headway; progress.
- n. Topic; subject.
- n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
- n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- n. (slang) The glans penis.
- n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
- adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
- adj. Placed at the top or the front.
- adj. Coming from in front.
- v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
- v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
- v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
- v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- v. (intransitive) To form a head.
- v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
- v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
- v. To set on the head.
hire- n. Payment for the temporary use of something.
- n. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
- n. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- n. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
- v. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- v. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone…
- v. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- v. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
- v. (intransitive) To accept employment.
hold- adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To contain or store.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- v. To take place, to occur.
- v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
- n. A grasp or grip.
- n. A place where animals are held for safety.
- n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- n. Something reserved or kept.
- n. Power over someone or something.
- n. The ability to persist.
- n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
- n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
- n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
- n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
hump- n. A mound of earth.
- n. A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
- n. A speed hump.
- n. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- n. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. (Britain, slang) A bad mood.
- n. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
- v. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
income- n. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
- n. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
- n. (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
- n. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
- n. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage…
- n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from…
- n. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible,…
incur- v. (transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or…
- v. (chiefly law) To render somebody liable or subject to.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To enter or pass into.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
- v. (transitive) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
ingest- v. To take into the body, as for digestion.
interpret- v. To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms…
- v. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation.
- v. (intransitive) To act as an interpreter.
involve- v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
- v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
- v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
- v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
- v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…
issue- n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
- n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
- n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
- n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
- n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
- n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
- n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
- n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
- n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
- n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
- n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
- v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- v. To rush out, to sally forth.
- v. To extend into, to open onto.
- v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- v. To send out; to put into circulation.
- v. To deliver for use.
- v. To deliver by authority.
jazz- n. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American…
- n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
- n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
- n. Unspecified thing(s).
- n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- n. Nonsense.
- v. To destroy.
- v. To play (jazz music).
- v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite.
- v. To complicate.
- v. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
- v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
- v. To distract/pester.
know- v. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
- v. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- v. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- v. (transitive) To experience.
- v. (transitive) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature…
- v. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence…
- v. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- v. (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with.
- v. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
- v. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
- v. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- n. (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.
lead- n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
- n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
- n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
- n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
- v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
- v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
- v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
- v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- v. To produce (with to).
- v. Misspelling of led.
- n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
- n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
- n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
- n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- n. (countable, mining) A lode.
- n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
- n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
- n. Charging lead.
- n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
- n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
- n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
- n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
- n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
- n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
- n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
- n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
- n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
- n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
- adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
- adj. (music) main, principal.
- v. Misspelling of led.
learn- v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
- v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- v. To be studying.
- v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.
lease- v. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) to gather.
- v. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- v. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) to glean.
- v. (intransitive, chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
- adj. false; lying; deceptive.
- n. falsehood; a lie.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
- n. an open pasture or common.
- v. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
- v. (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold)…
- v. (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
- v. (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
- n. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified…
- n. The period of such a contract.
- n. A leasehold.
- n. The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
love- n. (uncountable) Strong affection.
- n. (countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
- n. (colloquial, Britain) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
- n. (euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
- n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members,…
- n. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
- n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
- v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
- v. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
- v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
- v. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
- v. (transitive) To lust for.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.).
- v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
- v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
- n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.
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.
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…
necessitate- v. (transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about.
need- n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
- n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
- v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).
obtain- v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
- v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.
occupy- v. (transitive) To take or use time.
- v. (transitive) To take or use space.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
- v. (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
- v. (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
pack- n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
- n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
- n. a multitude.
- n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
- n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- n. A group of Cub Scouts.
- n. A shook of cask staves.
- n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
- n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- n. (rugby) The team on the field.
- v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
- v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
- v. To move, send or carry.
- v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…
payoff- n. Alternative spelling of pay-off.
position- n. A place or location.
- n. A post of employment; a job.
- n. A status or rank.
- n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
- n. A posture.
- n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
- n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
- n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- v. To put into place.
postulate- n. Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a…
- n. A fundamental element; a basic principle.
- n. (logic) An axiom.
- n. A requirement; a prerequisite.
- adj. Postulated.
- v. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical…
- v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.
proceeds- n. Revenue; gross revenue.
- n. Profits; net revenue.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed.
purchase- n. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.).
- n. An individual item one has purchased.
- n. The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- n. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession;…
- n. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- n. (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as…
- n. The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology…
- n. (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- n. (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by…
- v. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- v. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- v. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- v. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- v. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply…
- v. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- v. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
read- v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
- v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
- v. To consist of certain text.
- v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
- v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
- v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
- v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
- n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
- n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
- n. (in combination) That which is to be read.
receive- v. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
- v. To take possession of.
- v. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence,…
- v. To incur (an injury).
- v. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- v. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- v. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
- n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
record- n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
- n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
- n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
- v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
- v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
- v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
- v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.
remove- v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- v. (transitive) To murder.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
- v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
- n. The act of removing something.
- n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
- n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
- n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
- n. Distance in time or space; interval.
- n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
rent- n. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- n. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- n. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade…
- n. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- n. (obsolete) income; revenue.
- v. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- v. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- v. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- v. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
- n. A tear or rip in some surface.
- n. A division or schism.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of rend.
require- v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
- v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
- v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
- v. To demand of (someone) to do something.
return- v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
- v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
- v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- n. The act of returning.
- n. A return ticket.
- n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- n. An answer.
- n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
- n. Gain or loss from an investment.
- n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
- n. (computing) A carriage return character.
- n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…
screw- n. A device that has a helical function.
- n. (derogatory) A prison guard.
- n. (derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- n. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or…
- n. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- n. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- n. (slang) Salary, wages.
- n. (billiards) Backspin.
- n. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
- n. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
- n. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated…
- n. An amphipod crustacean.
- n. (dated, slang) A prison guard.
- v. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- v. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used…
- v. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
- v. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
- v. (transitive) To contort.
- v. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- v. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- v. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
see- v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- v. To form a mental picture of.
- v. (social) To meet, to visit.
- v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
- v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
- n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
- n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
select- adj. Privileged, specially selected.
- adj. Of high quality; top-notch.
- v. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
- v. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.
shoot- v. To launch a projectile.
- v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- v. (sports) To act or achieve.
- v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- v. To develop, move forward.
- v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W.
- n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- n. A photography session.
- n. A hunt or shooting competition.
- n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- n. A rush of water; a rapid.
- n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- n. A shoat; a young pig.
- n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
- interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.
sicken- v. (transitive) To make ill.
- v. (intransitive) To become ill.
- v. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
- v. (sports) To lower the standing of.
- v. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- v. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
- v. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
stand- v. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
- v. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
- v. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
- v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified…
- v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
- v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- n. The act of standing.
- n. A defensive position or effort.
- n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- n. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- n. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and…
- n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
- n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural).
- n. (cricket) A partnership.
- n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
- n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
- n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own…
- n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
stomach- n. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- n. (informal) The belly.
- n. (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
- n. (obsolete) Appetite.
- n. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
- v. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
strike- v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
- v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
- v. To touch; to act by appulse.
- v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
- v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
- v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- v. To make and ratify.
- v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
- v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
- v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
- v. To balance (a ledger or account).
- n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
- n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
- n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
- n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
- n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
- n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
- n. The discovery of a source of something.
- n. A strike plate.
study- v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
- v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
- v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
- v. To look at minutely.
- v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
- v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
- n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
- n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
- n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
- n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
- n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
- n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
- n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
- n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
submit- v. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- v. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
subscribe- v. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for…
- v. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
- v. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
- v. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- v. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- v. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
- v. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
- v. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
- v. (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- v. (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
- v. (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
suffer- v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
- v. (intransitive) To become worse.
- v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.
support- n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
- n. Financial or other help.
- n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
- n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
- n. Evidence.
- n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
- v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
- v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
- v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
- v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
- v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
swan- n. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
- n. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
- n. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms…
- v. (Britain, intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- v. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
swear- v. (intransitive, transitive) To take an oath.
- v. (intransitive) To use offensive language.
- n. A swear word.
- adj. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
- adj. (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
- adj. (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
- adj. (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
- adj. (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
- v. (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
take- v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- v. (transitive) To remove.
- v. (transitive) To have sex with.
- v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- v. (transitive) To consume.
- v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
- v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
- v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- v. (transitive) To require.
- v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
- v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
- v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
- v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
- v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- v. (transitive) To move into.
- v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
- v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
- v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- v. (transitive) To deal with.
- v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
- v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
- v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
- v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
- n. The or an act of taking.
- n. Something that is taken; a haul.
- n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
- n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
- n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
- n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
takingstolerate- v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
track- n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
- n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- n. A road or other similar beaten path.
- n. Physical course; way.
- n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- n. A tract or area, such as of land.
- n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
- n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
- n. (cricket) The pitch.
- n. Sound stored on a record.
- n. The physical track on a record.
- n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
- n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- n. A session talk on a conference.
- v. To continue observing over time.
- v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
train- n. Elongated portion.
- n. Connected sequence of people or things.
- v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
- v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- v. To proceed in sequence.
- v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
- v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
- v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
- n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
- n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
- n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
- n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
transport- v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
- v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
- v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
- n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
- n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
- n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
- n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
- n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
- n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
- n. (historical) A deported convict.
traverse- n. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by…
- n. (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject,…
- n. (obsolete) A screen or partition.
- n. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- n. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- n. (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings…
- n. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound…
- n. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- n. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- v. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- v. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- v. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- v. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- v. (climbing), To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- v. (engineering), (skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe…
- v. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
- v. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- v. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- v. (law) To deny formally.
- adv. athwart; across; crosswise.
- adj. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
undergo- v. (transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
- v. (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
- v. (transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.
use- n. The act of using.
- n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
- n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
- n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
- n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
- n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
- n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
- v. To accustom; to habituate.
- v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
- v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
- v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
- v. (transitive) To exploit.
- v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
- v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
- v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
- v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
- v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
utilise- v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
- v. To make use of; to use.
- v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
- v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.
utilize- v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.
verify- v. (transitive) To substantiate or prove the truth of something.
- v. (transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
- v. (transitive, law) To affirm something formally, under oath.
win- n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
- v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
- v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
- v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
- v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
- v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
- v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
- v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
- n. gain; profit; income.
- n. wealth; owndom; goods.
- n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
- n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).
withdraw- v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
- v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
- v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
- v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
- v. (intransitive) To retreat.
- v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
work- n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
- n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
- n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
- n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
- n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
- v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- v. (transitive) To set into action.
- v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- v. (intransitive) To ferment.
- v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
- v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
- v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
- v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- v. (transitive) To cause to work.
- v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
- v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
- v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
yield- v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
- v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
- v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
- n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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