Synonyms of the word

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.

advise

• v. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
• v. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
• v. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

backsheesh

• n. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
• v. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

baksheesh

• n. (business, ethics) in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.
• v. To bribe with a baksheesh.

bakshish

• n. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
• v. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

bung

• n. A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck…
• n. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
• n. (slang) A bribe.
• n. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
• v. (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
• v. (Britain, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck.
• v. (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
• v. (transitive) To pass a bribe.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order.

convexity

• n. The state of being convex.
• n. A convex line or surface.
• n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

counsel

• n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
• n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
• n. Advice; guidance.
• n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
• n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
• n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
• v. To give advice, especially professional advice.
• v. To recommend.

counseling

• n. Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties.
• v. present participle of counsel.

counselling

• n. (British spelling) Alternative form of counseling.
• v. (British spelling) present participle of counsel.

crest

• n. A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the…
• n. The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament…
• n. (heraldry): A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics)…
• n. The upper curve of a horse's neck.
• n. The ridge or top of a wave.
• n. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
• n. The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
• n. The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
• n. The top line of a slope or embankment.
• n. A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
• n. Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
• v. Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
• v. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
• v. To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

crown

• n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
• n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists,…
• n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
• n. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
• n. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
• n. The topmost part of the head.
• n. The highest part of a hill.
• n. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
• n. The raised centre of a road.
• n. The highest part of an arch.
• n. Splendor; culmination; acme.
• n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation)…
• n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
• n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
• n. (forestry) The top of a tree.
• n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
• n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
• n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
• n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
• n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
• n. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
• n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central…
• n. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
• n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
• n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
• n. The dome of a furnace.
• n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
• n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
• n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
• n. (African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for…
• adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
• adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
• v. To place a crown on the head of.
• v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
• v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
• v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
• v. To declare (someone) a winner.
• v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as…
• v. To hit on the head.
• v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video…
• v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
• v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
• v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
• v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
• v. (obsolete) past participle of crow.

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

fee

• n. (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also,…
• n. (law) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
• n. (law) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class…
• n. (obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
• n. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
• n. (obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
• n. A monetary payment charged for professional services.
• v. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to…

flex

• n. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
• n. (countable) The act of flexing.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
• v. To bend something.
• v. To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
• v. To move part of the body using one's muscles.
• v. To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

gift

• n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
• n. A talent or natural ability.
• n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
• n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
• v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
• v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

gratuity

• n. An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
• n. Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.
• n. Euphemistic form of bribe.

guidance

• n. The act or process of guiding.
• n. Advice or counselling on some topic.
• n. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

hint

• n. A clue.
• n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
• n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
• n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
• n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
• v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
• v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
• v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

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.

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

peak

• n. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
• n. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
• n. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
• n. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
• n. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
• n. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
• n. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is…
• v. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
• v. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
• v. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
• v. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
• v. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
• v. Misspelling of pique.

perk

• n. (informal) Perquisite.
• v. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
• v. (intransitive) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
• n. A percolator, particularly of coffee.
• v. To become more lively or enthusiastic.
• v. To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
• v. To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
• adj. Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
• v. (dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.

perquisite

• n. (mostly plural) Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
• n. A gratuity.
• n. A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

present

• adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
• adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
• adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
• adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
• adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
• adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
• adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the…
• adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
• n. The current moment or period of time.
• n. The present tense.
• n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other…
• n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
• v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
• v. (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop…
• v. (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
• v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
• v. (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
• v. (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
• v. (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
• v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
• v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the…
• v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
• v. (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
• v. (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
• v. (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
• v. (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

rede

• n. (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
• n. (archaic) Decision, a plan.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To govern, protect.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To discuss, deliberate.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To advise.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

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.

reorient

• v. To orient again; to become oriented after a dislocation or period of disorientation.

slant

• n. A slope; an incline, inclination.
• n. A sloped surface or line.
• n. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
• n. An oblique movement or course.
• n. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
• n. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
• n. A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolors.
• n. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
• n. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
• n. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement…
• n. (originally US) A point of view, an angle; a bias.
• n. (US) A look, a glance.
• n. (US, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
• v. To lean, tilt or incline.
• v. To bias or skew.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

steer

• n. The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
• v. (transitive) To castrate (a male calf).
• n. (informal) A suggestion about a course of action.
• v. (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a…
• v. (transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder,…
• v. (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
• v. (transitive) To direct a group of animals.
• v. (transitive) To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
• v. (transitive) To direct a conversation.
• v. To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
• n. (obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot.

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.

summit

• n. (countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
• n. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
• v. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.

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.

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…

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tippytoe

• n. Alternative form of tiptoe.
• v. Alternative form of tiptoe.

tiptoe

• n. (usually in the plural) The tips of one's toes collectively.
• adj. Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
• adj. Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
• v. To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.

top

• n. The highest part or component of an object.
• n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A top quark.
• n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
• n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
• n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
• n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
• n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
• v. To cover on the top or with a top.
• v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
• v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
• v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
• v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
• v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
• v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
• v. (archaic) To predominate.
• v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
• v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
• v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
• v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
• v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
• v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
• v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
• v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
• adj. Situated on the top of something.
• adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
• adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
• adv. Rated first.

topple

• v. to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something.
• v. to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so.

tumble

• n. A fall.
• n. An act of sexual intercourse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.
• v. To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
• v. To roll over and over.
• v. (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
• v. To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

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.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

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.