Synonyms of the word tree


TREEACTOR - CHANNELISE - CHANNELIZE - CHASE - CORNER - DIRECT - DOG - ELONGATE - GUIDE - HEAD - HISTRION - MANEUVER - MANOEUVER - MANOEUVRE - PLANT - PLAYER - POINT - SET - SHOETREE - STEER - STRETCH - TAG - TAIL - THESPIAN - TRACK - TRAIL

tree

  • n. A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk which…
  • n. Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense:…
  • n. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
  • n. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
  • n. The structural frame of a saddle.
  • n. (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and…
  • n. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • n. (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and…
  • n. Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • n. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • n. (informal) Marijuana.
  • n. (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
  • n. (obsolete) wood; timber.
  • n. (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal…
  • v. (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
  • v. (transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

actor

  • n. A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.
  • n. One who acts; a doer.
  • n. One who takes part in a situation.
  • n. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
  • n. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
  • n. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
  • n. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

channelise

  • v. (British spelling) alternative form of channelize.

channelize

  • v. To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
  • v. (transitive) To transmit through a channel.
  • v. (transitive) To multiplex (messages) through a single line.

chase

  • n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
  • n. A hunt.
  • n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
  • n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
  • n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
  • n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
  • n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
  • n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
  • n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
  • v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
  • v. (transitive) To hunt.
  • v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
  • v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
  • n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
  • n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
  • n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
  • n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
  • n. The cavity of a mold.
  • n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
  • v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
  • v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
  • v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
  • v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

corner

  • n. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
  • n. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction…
  • n. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
  • n. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party…
  • n. (heading) Relating to the playing field.
  • n. A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To drive (someone) into a corner or other confined space.
  • v. (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
  • v. (finance, business, transitive) To get or attempt to get a sufficient command of (a stock, commodity,…
  • v. (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
  • v. (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
  • n. Someone or something that corns.

direct

  • adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
  • adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
  • adj. Straightforward; sincere.
  • adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  • adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
  • adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
  • adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
  • adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
  • adv. Directly.
  • v. To manage, control, steer.
  • v. To aim (something) at (something else).
  • v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
  • v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
  • v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

dog

  • n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
  • n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
  • n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
  • n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
  • n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
  • n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
  • n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
  • n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
  • n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
  • n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
  • n. A hot dog.
  • n. (poker slang) Underdog.
  • n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
  • v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
  • v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
  • v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…

elongate

  • adj. lengthened, extended.
  • adj. slender.
  • v. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
  • v. To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its…
  • v. (obsolete) To remove further off.

guide

  • n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
  • n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
  • n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
  • n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
  • n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
  • n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
  • n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
  • v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
  • v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
  • v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
  • v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
  • v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

head

  • n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
  • n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  • n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
  • n. A significant or important part.
  • n. Headway; progress.
  • n. Topic; subject.
  • n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
  • n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
  • n. (slang) The glans penis.
  • n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  • n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
  • adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
  • adj. Placed at the top or the front.
  • adj. Coming from in front.
  • v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
  • v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
  • v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
  • v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a head.
  • v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
  • v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  • v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
  • v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
  • v. To set on the head.

histrion

  • n. (obsolete) A stage actor.

maneuver

  • n. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
  • n. (often in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
  • n. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully.
  • v. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme.

manoeuver

  • n. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of maneuver.
  • v. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of maneuver.

manoeuvre

  • n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
  • v. (transitive) British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling…

plant

  • n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
  • n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
  • n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
  • n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
  • n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
  • n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
  • n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
  • n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
  • n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
  • n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
  • n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
  • n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
  • n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
  • n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
  • n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
  • v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
  • v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
  • v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
  • v. To place in the ground.
  • v. To furnish or supply with plants.
  • v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
  • v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
  • v. To set up; to install; to instate.

player

  • n. One that plays.
  • n. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  • n. A significant participant.
  • n. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

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.

set

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
  • v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
  • v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
  • v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • v. (intransitive) To solidify.
  • v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
  • v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • v. To place or fix in a setting.
  • v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
  • v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
  • n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
  • n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
  • n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  • n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  • n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
  • n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
  • n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
  • n. A young oyster when first attached.
  • n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
  • n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
  • n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  • adj. Fixed in position.
  • adj. Rigid, solidified.
  • adj. Ready, prepared.
  • adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
  • adj. Prearranged.
  • adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
  • adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
  • n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  • n. A rudimentary fruit.
  • n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  • n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  • n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
  • n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
  • n. An object made up of several parts.
  • n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
  • n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
  • n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
  • n. The scenery for a film or play.
  • n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  • n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  • n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  • n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
  • n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  • n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
  • v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

shoetree

  • n. A foot-shaped device placed in a shoe to maintain its shape when not being worn.

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.

stretch

  • v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
  • v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
  • v. (transitive) To pull tight.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
  • v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
  • v. (transitive) To increase.
  • v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
  • v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
  • n. An act of stretching.
  • n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
  • n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
  • n. A segment of a journey or route.
  • n. A segment or length of material.
  • n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
  • n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
  • n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

tag

  • n. A small label.
  • n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
  • n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
  • n. A type of cardboard.
  • n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
  • n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  • n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
  • n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
  • n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  • n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
  • n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
  • n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  • n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  • n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  • n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  • n. A sheep in its first year.
  • n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
  • n. (slang) A person's name.
  • v. (transitive) To label (something).
  • v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
  • v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
  • v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
  • v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  • v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  • v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
  • v. To fasten; to attach.
  • n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

tail

  • n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  • n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
  • n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  • n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  • n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  • n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  • n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  • n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  • n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
  • n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  • n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
  • n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
  • n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
  • n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  • n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  • n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
  • n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  • n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  • n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  • n. (mining) A tailing.
  • n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
  • v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  • v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
  • v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  • v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  • v. To pull or draw by the tail.
  • adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
  • n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

thespian

  • adj. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical.
  • n. An actor or player.

track

  • n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
  • n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
  • n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
  • n. A road or other similar beaten path.
  • n. Physical course; way.
  • n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
  • n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
  • n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
  • n. A tract or area, such as of land.
  • n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
  • n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
  • n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
  • n. (cricket) The pitch.
  • n. Sound stored on a record.
  • n. The physical track on a record.
  • n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
  • n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
  • n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
  • n. A session talk on a conference.
  • v. To continue observing over time.
  • v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

trail

  • v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
  • v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
  • v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
  • v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
  • v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
  • v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
  • v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
  • v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
  • n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
  • n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
  • n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
  • n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

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