Synonyms of the word

tap

• n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
• n. A device used to dispense liquids.
• n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
• n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
• n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die…
• n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
• n. An interception of communication by authority.
• v. To furnish with taps.
• v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
• v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
• v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
• v. To intercept a communication without authority.
• v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
• v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already…
• n. Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
• v. To strike lightly.
• v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
• v. To make a sharp noise.
• v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
• v. (slang, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
• v. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
• v. To put a new sole or heel on.
• n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
• n. tap dance.
• n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
• n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel;…
• n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring…
• n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard…

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.

beg

• v. (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
• v. (transitive) to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
• v. (transitive) to assume, in the phrase beg the question.
• v. (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question.
• v. (law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
• n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.
• abbr. (knitting) beginning.

bespeak

• v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
• v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
• v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
• v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
• v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
• n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bug

• n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
• n. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
• n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
• n. Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
• n. (chiefly computing) A problem that needs fixing.
• n. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it.
• n. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
• n. An electronic intercept device.
• n. A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page,…
• n. (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program…
• n. (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
• n. A semi-automated telegraph key.
• n. (obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
• n. (chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
• n. (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
• n. (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
• v. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
• v. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

bump

• n. A light blow or jolting collision.
• n. The sound of such a collision.
• n. A protuberance on a level surface.
• n. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
• n. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or…
• n. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to…
• n. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
• n. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning…
• n. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
• n. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
• n. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
• n. A coarse cotton fabric.
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.
• n. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
• v. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
• v. To move up or down by a step.
• v. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it…
• v. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
• v. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
• v. (transitive) To move the time of a scheduled event.
• v. (archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
• interj. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to…

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

dab

• v. (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
• v. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
• v. To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
• v. To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
• n. A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
• n. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
• n. (chiefly in the plural, dated, Britain) Fingerprint.
• n. A small amount of hash oil.
• n. A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting…
• adv. With a dab, or sudden contact.
• n. One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
• n. A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda； a flounder.
• n. (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
• adj. (obsolete, back slang) Bad.

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

eavesdrop

• v. To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
• n. The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house.
• n. The space around a house on which such water drips.
• n. A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking…
• n. The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard.

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.

exploit

• n. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
• n. An achievement.
• n. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
• v. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

faucet

• n. (Canada, US) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid…

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

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…

hydrant

• n. An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which…

intercept

• n. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
• n. An interception of a missile.
• n. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
• n. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store…
• v. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
• v. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.

investigating

• v. present participle of investigate.

investigation

• n. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient…

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

pat

• n. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep.
• n. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands.
• n. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
• v. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
• v. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
• v. To gently rain.
• adj. timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
• adj. trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
• adv. Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
• adv. Perfectly.
• n. patent.
• n. (knitting) pattern.

pierce

• v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
• v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
• v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
• v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

pink

• n. (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
• n. (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
• n. (now historical) A narrow boat.
• v. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
• v. To prick with a sword.
• v. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
• v. To choose; to cull; to pick out.
• n. A stab.
• n. Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
• n. (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
• n. The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
• n. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 6 points.
• n. (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare…
• adj. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
• adj. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
• adj. Having conjunctivitis.
• adj. (obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism…
• adj. (informal) Relating to women or girls.
• adj. (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
• v. (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat; (more generally) to…
• v. (of a motor car) To emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the…
• v. (obsolete) To wink; to blink.
• adj. (obsolete) Half-shut; winking.

plate

• n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
• n. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
• n. The contents of such a dish.
• n. A course at a meal.
• n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities.
• n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
• n. A vehicle license plate.
• n. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating.
• n. A material covered with such a layer.
• n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
• n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell,…
• n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
• n. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
• n. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page…
• n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which…
• n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
• n. (baseball) Home plate.
• n. (geology) A tectonic plate.
• n. (historical) Plate armour.
• n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
• n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis…
• n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
• n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
• n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
• n. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
• n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
• n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name,…
• n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of…
• n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
• n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
• n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
• n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally…
• n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
• n. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
• v. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
• v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
• v. To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (baseball) To score a run.
• v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
• n. Precious metal, especially silver.

plug

• n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
• n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
• n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
• n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
• n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
• v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

quest

• n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
• n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
• n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
• n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
• n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
• v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
• v. To search for; to examine.
• v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

rap

• n. (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
• n. (uncountable) Blame (for something), whether or not it results in a conviction.
• n. (informal) A casual talk.
• n. (music, uncountable) Rap music.
• n. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
• v. (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
• v. (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To talk casually.
• n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
• n. Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century;…
• n. A whit; a jot.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

request

• n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
• n. A formal message requesting something.
• n. Condition of being sought after.
• n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
• v. to express the need or desire for.
• v. to ask somebody to do something.

solicit

• v. To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
• v. To woo; to court.
• v. To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
• v. To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
• v. To make a petition.
• v. (archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
• v. To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

spigot

• n. A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
• n. The plug of a faucet or cock.
• n. (Appalachia) A faucet.

stopper

• n. Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
• n. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
• n. A bung or cork.
• n. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
• n. (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is…
• n. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination,…
• n. (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
• n. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
• v. To close a container by using a stopper.

stopple

• n. a plug, a stopper.
• v. to plug, to stop up.

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.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

tapdance

• v. Alternative form of tap-dance.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

tool

• n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
• n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
• n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
• v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
• v. (transitive) To work very hard.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

touching

• v. present participle of touch.
• adj. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
• n. The act by which something is touched.

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.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

wiretap

• n. A concealed device connected to a telephone or other communications system that allows a third party to…
• n. The act of installing such a device.
• v. To install or to use such a device.

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.