Synonyms of the word wharf


WHARFBERTH - DISCHARGE - DOCK - DROP - FURNISH - MOOR - PIER - PLATFORM - PROVIDE - RENDER - STORE - SUPPLY - UNLOAD - WHARFAGE

wharf

  • n. A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
  • n. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.

berth

  • n. A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
  • n. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.).
  • n. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
  • n. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
  • n. A job or position, especially on a ship.
  • n. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
  • n. (sports) position on the field of play.
  • v. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.
  • v. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to.

discharge

  • v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
  • v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
  • v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
  • v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
  • v. To expel or let go.
  • v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
  • v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
  • v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
  • v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
  • v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
  • v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
  • v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
  • v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
  • v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
  • v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
  • v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
  • v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
  • n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
  • n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
  • n. the act of expelling or letting go.
  • n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
  • n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
  • n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
  • n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

dock

  • n. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially…
  • n. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
  • n. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
  • n. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
  • n. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
  • n. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
  • v. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
  • v. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
  • v. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
  • n. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
  • n. The body of water between two piers.
  • n. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
  • n. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
  • n. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop…
  • n. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications,…
  • n. An act of docking; joining two things together.
  • v. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
  • v. To join two moving items.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where…
  • n. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
  • v. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in…

drop

  • n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
  • n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
  • n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
  • n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
  • n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
  • n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
  • n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
  • n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
  • n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
  • n. (American football) A dropped pass.
  • n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
  • n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
  • n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
  • n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
  • n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
  • n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
  • n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
  • n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
  • n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
  • n. (architecture) A gutta.
  • n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
  • n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
  • n. A drop press or drop hammer.
  • n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
  • n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
  • v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
  • v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
  • v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
  • v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
  • v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
  • v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
  • v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
  • v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
  • v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
  • v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
  • v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
  • v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
  • v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
  • v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
  • v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
  • v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
  • v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
  • v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
  • v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
  • v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
  • v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
  • v. To give birth to.
  • v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
  • v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

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.

moor

  • n. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy,…
  • n. a game preserve consisting of moorland.
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by…
  • v. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

pier

  • n. A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide…
  • n. A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
  • n. (US, nautical) A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
  • n. A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
  • n. (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.

platform

  • n. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
  • n. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.
  • n. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
  • n. (automotive) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
  • n. (computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific…
  • n. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
  • n. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
  • n. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
  • n. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform.
  • v. (transitive) To place on a platform.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
  • v. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform.

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.

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.

store

  • n. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
  • n. A supply held in storage.
  • n. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.
  • n. (computing, dated) Memory.
  • n. A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
  • n. A great quantity or number.
  • v. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
  • v. (intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.

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.

unload

  • v. (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
  • v. (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
  • v. (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice.
  • v. (transitive) To draw the charge from.

wharfage

  • n. A dock; quay; or pier.
  • n. A fee charged for using a wharf.

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