Synonyms of the word work


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work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

acquisition

  • n. The act or process of acquiring.
  • n. The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
  • n. (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting…

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

activity

  • n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
  • n. Something done as an action or a movement.
  • n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
  • n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

affect

  • v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
  • v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
  • v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
  • v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
  • n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
  • n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
  • n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

apply

  • v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
  • v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
  • v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
  • v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  • v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
  • v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
  • v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit.
  • adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

becharm

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.

become

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
  • v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  • v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
  • v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
  • v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

beguile

  • v. (transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
  • v. (transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.

bewitch

  • v. to cast a spell on someone or something.
  • v. to astonish, amaze.

bring

  • v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
  • v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  • v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  • v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
  • interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.

business

  • n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
  • n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
  • n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
  • n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
  • n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
  • n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
  • n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
  • n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
  • n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
  • n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
  • n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
  • n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
  • n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
  • n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
  • adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
  • adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
  • adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

captivate

  • v. To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
  • v. (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

capture

  • n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
  • n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
  • n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
  • n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
  • n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
  • v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
  • v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
  • v. To reproduce convincingly.
  • v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

care

  • n. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow.
  • n. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
  • n. Worry.
  • n. Maintenance, upkeep.
  • n. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
  • n. The state of being cared for by others.
  • n. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned about, have an interest in.
  • v. (intransitive) To look after.
  • v. (intransitive) To be mindful of.
  • v. (intransitive) Polite or formal way to say want.

catch

  • n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
  • n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
  • n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
  • n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
  • n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
  • n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
  • n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
  • n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
  • n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
  • n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
  • n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
  • n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
  • n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
  • n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
  • n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
  • n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
  • n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
  • n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
  • n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
  • n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
  • n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  • n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
  • v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
  • v. (heading) To seize hold of.
  • v. (heading) To intercept.
  • v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
  • v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
  • v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
  • v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

charm

  • n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
  • n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
  • n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
  • n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
  • v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
  • v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
  • v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
  • n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
  • n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

convert

  • n. A person who has converted to a religion.
  • n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
  • v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
  • v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
  • v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
  • v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
  • v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
  • v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
  • v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
  • v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
  • v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
  • v. (intransitive) To become converted.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
  • v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

create

  • v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
  • v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
  • v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
  • v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
  • v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
  • adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

crop

  • n. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or…
  • n. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  • n. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  • n. The lashing end of a whip.
  • n. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  • n. A rocky outcrop.
  • n. The act of cropping.
  • n. A short haircut.
  • n. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store…
  • n. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  • n. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of…
  • n. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  • n. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  • v. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
  • v. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

cultivate

  • v. To grow plants, notably crops.
  • v. To nurture; to foster; to tend.
  • v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

displace

  • v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • v. (psycology) to repress.

employ

  • n. The state of being an employee; employment.
  • v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
  • v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
  • v. To make busy.

employment

  • n. A use, purpose.
  • n. The act of employing.
  • n. The state of being employed.
  • n. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid.
  • n. An activity to which one devotes time.
  • n. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work.

enamor

  • v. (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.
  • v. (mostly in the passive) to captivate;.

enamour

  • v. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada spelling of enamor.

enchant

  • v. To attract and delight, to charm.
  • v. To cast a spell over.

energy

  • n. The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
  • n. The capacity to do work.
  • n. (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass…
  • n. (New Age jargon) An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative')…
  • n. (role-playing games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take;…

entrance

  • n. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.
  • n. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
  • n. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
  • n. (uncountable) The right to go in.
  • n. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
  • n. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
  • n. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
  • n. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
  • n. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.
  • v. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
  • v. (transitive) To put into a trance.

excite

  • v. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
  • v. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
  • v. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron…
  • v. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

exercise

  • n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
  • n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
  • n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
  • n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
  • n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
  • v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
  • v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
  • v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
  • v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

exploit

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

fascinate

  • v. To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
  • v. To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
  • v. To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.

ferment

  • v. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars;…
  • v. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
  • n. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
  • n. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
  • n. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
  • n. A catalyst.

fix

  • n. A repair or corrective action.
  • n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
  • n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
  • n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
  • n. A determination of location.
  • n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  • v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  • v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
  • v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
  • v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
  • v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
  • v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

forge

  • n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
  • n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
  • n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
  • v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  • v. To form or create with concerted effort.
  • v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  • v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
  • v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
  • v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

  • n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  • n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  • n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • n. Level of performance.
  • n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
  • n. The den or home of a hare.
  • n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
  • n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  • n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
  • n. (geometry) A quantic.
  • n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  • v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  • v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  • v. (intransitive) To take shape.
  • v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

function

  • n. What something does or is used for.
  • n. A professional or official position.
  • n. An official or social occasion.
  • n. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
  • n. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of…
  • n. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
  • n. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
  • n. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
  • n. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
  • v. (intransitive) to have a function.
  • v. (intransitive) to carry on a function; to be in action.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

handle

  • n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
  • n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
  • n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
  • n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
  • n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
  • n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
  • n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
  • n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
  • n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
  • n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
  • v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
  • v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
  • v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
  • v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
  • v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
  • v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
  • v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
  • v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

impact

  • n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
  • n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
  • n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
  • n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
  • v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
  • v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
  • v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

influence

  • n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
  • n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
  • n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
  • n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
  • n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
  • v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
  • v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

job

  • n. A task.
  • n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
  • n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
  • n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  • n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
  • n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
  • n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  • n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
  • v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  • v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
  • v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
  • v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  • v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
  • v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
  • v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
  • v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
  • v. To hire or let in periods of service.

knead

  • v. (transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  • v. (intransitive, of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  • v. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

learning

  • n. (uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
  • n. (uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
  • n. (countable) Something that has been learned.
  • v. present participle of learn.

lick

  • n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
  • n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • n. (colloquial) A bit.
  • n. (music) A short motif.
  • n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
  • v. To stroke with the tongue.
  • v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • v. (colloquial) To overcome.
  • v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
  • v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

make

  • v. (transitive, heading) To create.
  • v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  • v. To constitute.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  • v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
  • v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  • v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  • v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  • v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  • v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
  • v. To appoint; to name.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
  • v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  • v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  • v. To enact; to establish.
  • v. To develop into; to prove to be.
  • v. To form or formulate in the mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
  • v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
  • v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
  • n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  • n. How a thing is made; construction.
  • n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  • n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  • n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  • n. A person's character or disposition.
  • n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
  • n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
  • n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
  • n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
  • n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  • n. (slang, military) A promotion.
  • n. A home-made project.
  • n. (basketball) A made basket.
  • n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

manage

  • v. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
  • v. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
  • v. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  • v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
  • v. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
  • v. To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  • v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
  • v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
  • n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
  • n. (horseriding) Manège.

manipulate

  • v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
  • v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
  • v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…

mold

  • n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
  • n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
  • n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
  • n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
  • n. General shape or form.
  • n. Distinctive character or type.
  • n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
  • n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
  • n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
  • v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
  • v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
  • v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
  • v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
  • v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
  • v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
  • v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
  • n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
  • v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
  • n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
  • v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

  • n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
  • v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

occupation

  • n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
  • n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  • n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

oeuvre

  • n. A work of art.
  • n. The complete body of an artist's work.

operate

  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  • v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

output

  • n. (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  • n. (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
  • n. (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
  • v. (economics) To produce, create, or complete.
  • v. (computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

play

  • v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
  • v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
  • v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
  • v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
  • v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
  • v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
  • v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
  • v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
  • v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
  • n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
  • n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
  • n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
  • n. The conduct, or course of a game.
  • n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
  • n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
  • n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
  • n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
  • n. (countable) A major move by a business.
  • n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
  • n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
  • n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

prepare

  • v. (transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
  • v. (transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
  • v. (intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
  • v. (transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
  • n. (obsolete) preparation.

proceed

  • v. (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To come from (have as the source or origin).
  • v. (intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures;…
  • v. (intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
  • v. (intransitive, of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
  • v. (law, intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process.

process

  • n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
  • n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
  • n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
  • n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
  • n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
  • n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  • n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
  • n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
  • v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
  • v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
  • v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
  • v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

product

  • n. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
  • n. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
  • n. Anything that is produced; a result.
  • n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

production

  • n. The act of producing, making or creating something.
  • n. The act of bringing something forward, out etc. for use or consideration.
  • n. The act of being produced.
  • n. The total amount produced.
  • n. The presentation of a theatrical work.
  • n. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
  • n. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual…
  • n. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
  • n. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate…

ready

  • adj. Prepared for immediate action or use.
  • adj. Inclined; apt to happen.
  • adj. Liable at any moment.
  • adj. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert.
  • adj. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
  • v. To make prepared for action.
  • n. (slang) ready money; cash.

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

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.

shape

  • n. The status or condition of something.
  • n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  • n. Form; formation.
  • n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
  • n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
  • n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
  • n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
  • v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  • v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
  • v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

solve

  • v. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • v. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
  • v. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen…
  • n. (obsolete) A solution; an explanation.

sour

  • adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
  • adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
  • adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
  • adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
  • adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
  • adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
  • adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  • adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
  • n. The sensation of a sour taste.
  • n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
  • n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
  • n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • v. (transitive) To make sour.
  • v. (intransitive) To become sour.
  • v. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  • v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
  • v. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  • v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

stimulate

  • v. To encourage into action.
  • v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

stir

  • v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
  • v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
  • v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
  • v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
  • v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
  • n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
  • n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
  • n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
  • n. (slang) Jail; prison.

study

  • v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
  • v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
  • v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
  • v. To look at minutely.
  • v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
  • v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
  • n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
  • n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
  • n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
  • n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
  • n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
  • n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
  • n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
  • n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

succeed

  • v. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
  • v. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue…
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
  • v. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
  • v. To support; to prosper; to promote.
  • v. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed…
  • v. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  • v. To go under cover.

touch

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

trance

  • n. A dazed or unconscious condition.
  • n. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience;…
  • n. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
  • n. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
  • n. (uncountable, music) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
  • n. (obsolete) A tedious journey.
  • v. To entrance.
  • v. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
  • v. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

transform

  • v. (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.
  • v. (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart,…
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering…
  • v. (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
  • v. (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo a transformation.
  • n. (mathematics) the result of a transformation.

transmute

  • v. (transitive) To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.

transubstantiate

  • v. (transitive) To change one substance into another; to transmute.
  • v. (transitive) To change the bread and wine of the Eucharist into the body and blood of Jesus.

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

understand

  • v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
  • v. To believe, based on information.
  • v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
  • v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

use

  • n. The act of using.
  • n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
  • n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
  • n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
  • n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
  • n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
  • n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
  • n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
  • v. To accustom; to habituate.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
  • v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
  • v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
  • v. (transitive) To exploit.
  • v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
  • v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
  • v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
  • v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

  • v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
  • v. To make use of; to use.
  • v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
  • v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilize

  • v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.

win

  • n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
  • v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
  • v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
  • v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
  • v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
  • v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
  • n. gain; profit; income.
  • n. wealth; owndom; goods.
  • n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
  • n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

workplace

  • n. The place where someone works.

wreak

  • v. (transitive) To cause, inflict or let out, especially if causing harm or injury.
  • v. (archaic) To inflict or take vengeance on.
  • v. (archaic) To take vengeance for.
  • v. (intransitive) Misspelling of reek.
  • n. (archaic, literary) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
  • n. (archaic, literary) Punishment; retribution; payback.

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