Synonyms of the word

bob

• v. (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at…
• v. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
• v. To curtsy.
• v. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
• n. A bobbing motion.
• n. A bobber.
• n. A curtsy.
• n. A bob haircut.
• n. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when…
• n. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
• n. The docked tail of a horse.
• n. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
• n. The short runner of a sled.
• n. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
• n. A working beam in a steam engine.
• n. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
• n. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
• n. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
• n. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
• n. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
• v. (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
• v. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
• v. Short form of bobsleigh.
• n. (Kenya, slang ; UK and Australia, historical, dated slang) A shilling.
• n. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
• n. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
• n. Abbreviation of shishkabob.
• n. (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted…

arrange

• v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
• v. To put in order, to organize.
• v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
• v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

bobber

• n. One who takes part in apple bobbing.
• n. (fishing) A buoyant device (frequently made of cork) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the…
• n. A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender.

bobsled

• n. (US and Canada) A sled used to go down a bob track.
• n. (US and Canada) The sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible.
• n. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; the compound sled so formed.
• v. To ride a bobsled.

bobsleigh

• n. (Britain) A winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced…
• n. (Britain) The sled used in the sport of bobsleigh.
• v. To ride a bobsleigh.

bobtail

• n. A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
• n. An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
• n. (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
• n. A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
• v. (agriculture) To drive a tractor without its trailer.
• v. To drive a truck or other vehicle without its trailer.

coif

• n. A hairdo.
• n. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until XVIII century; after that worn…
• n. An item of chain mail headgear.
• n. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
• v. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.

coiffe

• v. Alternative spelling of coif.

coiffure

• n. hairstyle.
• v. (transitive) to style or arrange hair.

cork

• n. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers,…
• n. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
• n. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
• n. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
• n. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants.
• v. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
• v. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
• v. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
• v. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
• v. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
• n. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes…
• v. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
• adj. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

curtsy

• n. Alternative spelling of curtsey.

cut

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

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

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…

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

float

• v. (intransitive) Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object…
• v. (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
• v. (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
• v. (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
• v. (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
• v. (intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
• v. (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed…
• v. (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
• v. (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public,…
• v. (transitive) To use a float (tool).
• v. (poker) To perform a float.
• v. (computing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
• n. A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
• n. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
• n. A float board.
• n. A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
• n. A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
• n. An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
• n. (Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
• n. (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
• n. (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in…
• n. (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet…
• n. (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
• n. (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
• n. A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
• n. A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
• n. (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing…
• n. (knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
• n. (automotive) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
• n. (transport) a lowboy trailer.
• n. (tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as…
• n. (obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
• n. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
• n. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
• n. (Britain, dated) A coal cart.
• n. A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
• n. (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.

greet

• v. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy).
• v. (transitive) To accost; to address.
• v. (intransitive) To meet and give salutations.
• v. (transitive) To be perceived by (somebody).
• adj. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
• n. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

hairdo

• n. A hairstyle.
• n. A haircut.

hairstyle

• n. The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.

inclination

• n. A physical tilt or bend.
• n. A slant or slope.
• n. A mental tendency.
• n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
• n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

inclining

• v. present participle of incline.
• n. inclination.

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…

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.

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.

shilling

• n. A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth…
• n. The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
• n. (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
• n. (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth…
• v. present participle of shill.

sled

• n. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled"…
• n. (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is…
• v. To ride a sled.

sledge

• n. A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
• v. to hit with a sledgehammer.
• n. A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
• n. (Britain) any type of sled or sleigh.
• n. A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
• v. To drag or draw a sledge.
• v. To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge.
• v. (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered…

sleigh

• n. A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting…
• v. To ride or drive a sleigh.
• adj. (obsolete) Sly.

tail

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

weight

• n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
• n. An object used to make something heavier.
• n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• n. Importance or influence.
• n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
• n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
• n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
• n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
• n. Pressure; burden.
• n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
• v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
• v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.