Synonyms of the word

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…

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…

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.

channelise

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

channelize

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

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,…

deduct

• v. To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.

deprive

• v. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

direct

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

dockage

• n. (nautical) The act of docking.
• n. (nautical) A charge levied for docking.

enclosure

• n. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
• n. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
• n. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
• n. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
• n. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
• n. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

enter

• v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
• v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
• v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
• v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
• v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
• v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
• v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
• v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
• v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
• v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).

guide

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

head

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

herb

• n. Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
• n. Plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
• n. (slang, euphemistic) Marijuana.
• n. (botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
• n. (obsolete) Grass; herbage.

landing

• n. corridor.
• n. coming to earth, as of an airplane or any descending object.
• n. a place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
• n. The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
• v. present participle of land.

maneuver

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

manoeuver

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

manoeuvre

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

pier

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

platform

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

point

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

recoup

• v. To make back, as an investment.
• v. To recover from an error.
• v. (law) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off…
• v. (transitive) To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive.

sorrel

• n. A kind of plant with acidic leaves, especially Rumex acetosa (common sorrel), sometimes used as a salad…
• n. The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
• n. A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa:…
• n. A brown colour, with a tint of red.
• adj. Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse).

steer

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

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.

wharf

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

wharfage

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

withhold

• v. (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to…
• v. (transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.