Synonyms of the word

double

• adj. Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
• adj. Twice the quantity.
• adj. Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
• adj. Designed for two users.
• adj. Folded in two; composed of two layers.
• adj. Stooping; bent over.
• adj. Having two aspects; ambiguous.
• adj. False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
• adj. Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
• adj. (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
• adj. (music) Of time, twice as fast.
• adv. Twice over; twofold.
• adv. Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double).
• n. Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
• n. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes.
• n. A drink with two portions of alcohol.
• n. A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
• n. A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
• n. A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
• n. (baseball) A two-base hit.
• n. (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
• n. (billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to…
• n. A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse…
• n. (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
• n. (darts) A hit on this ring.
• n. (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
• n. (computing, programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
• n. (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
• n. (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
• n. (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
• n. (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
• n. (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
• n. (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
• v. To multiply by two.
• v. To fold over so as to make two folds.
• v. To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
• v. (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
• v. (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
• v. (transitive) (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
• v. (transitive) (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
• v. (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
• v. (intransitive) (often followed by as) To play a second part or serve a second role.
• v. (intransitive) To turn sharply; following a winding course.
• v. (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
• v. (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
• v. (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
• v. (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
• v. (card games, intransitive) To double down.
• v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
• v. (intransitive) (followed by for) To act as substitute.
• v. (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
• v. (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
• v. (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
• v. (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either…

ambiguous

• adj. Open to multiple interpretations.
• adj. Vague and unclear.
• adj. (obsolete, of persons) Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.

backup

• n. A reserve or substitute.
• n. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover…
• n. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement…
• n. (law enforcement) reinforcements.
• adj. Standby, reserve or extra.
• adj. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
• v. Misspelling of back up.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

bid

• v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
• v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
• v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
• v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
• v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
• v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
• n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
• n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
• n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

big

• adj. Of great size, large.
• adj. (of an industry or other field) Thought to have undue influence.
• adj. Popular.
• adj. (informal) Adult.
• adj. (informal) Fat.
• adj. (informal) Important or significant.
• adj. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
• adj. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled.
• adj. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case…
• adj. (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns.
• adj. (of a city) populous.
• adv. In a loud manner.
• adv. In a boasting manner.
• adv. In a large amount or to a large extent.
• adv. On a large scale, expansively.
• adv. Hard.
• n. Someone or something that is large in stature.
• n. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
• n. (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
• v. (transitive) To praise or recommend.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy.
• v. (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling.
• n. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

bivalent

• adj. (chemistry) Having a valence of 2.
• adj. (genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis.
• adj. (of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses.
• n. (genetics) Any bivalent chromosome.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

doubled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of double.

doubling

• v. present participle of double.

doubly

• adv. (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity…
• adv. in two ways.
• adv. (obsolete) with duplicity.

dual

• adj. Exhibiting duality; characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
• adj. Acting as a counterpart.
• adj. Double.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two of something,…
• adj. (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
• adj. (category theory) Being the dual of (some other category); containing the same objects but with domain…
• n. Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
• n. (geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices…
• n. (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual,…
• n. (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the…

duple

• adj. (rare) Double.
• adj. (of time or music) Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure.
• adj. (poetry) Having two beats in each foot.

duplicate

• adj. Being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage…
• adj. (games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other…
• v. to make a copy of.
• v. to do repeatedly; to do again.
• v. to produce something equal to.
• n. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
• n. (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars,…
• n. The game of duplicate bridge.
• n. The game of duplicate Scrabble.
• n. (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the…

equivocal

• n. A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.
• adj. Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation; ambiguous;…
• adj. Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters;…
• adj. Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful, incongruous.

fill-in

• n. A temporary replacement for another.

flex

• n. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
• n. (countable) The act of flexing.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
• v. To bend something.
• v. To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
• v. To move part of the body using one's muscles.
• v. To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

forked

• adj. That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fork.

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.

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…

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

image

• n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
• n. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
• n. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image,…
• n. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to…
• n. (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
• n. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
• n. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
• v. (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
• v. (transitive) To create an image of.
• v. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

large

• adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
• adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
• adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
• adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
• adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
• adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is…
• n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
• n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
• n. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
• n. A large serving of something.

look-alike

• n. A person who is visually similar to another; a double.

manifold

• n. (now historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
• n. (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
• n. (US, regional, in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
• n. (computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object.
• adj. Various in kind or quality, diverse.
• adj. Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
• adj. Complicated.
• adj. Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
• adv. Many times; repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To make manifold; multiply.
• v. (transitive, printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

multiple

• adj. Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
• n. (mathematics) A whole number that may be divided by another whole number with no remainder.
• n. (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
• n. One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
• n. A single individual who has multiple personalities.
• n. One of a set of siblings produced by a multiple birth.
• n. A chain store.

multiply

• v. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
• v. (intransitive) To grow in number.
• v. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
• v. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
• n. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
• adv. In many or multiple ways.

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.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

reduplicate

• adj. doubled.
• adj. (botany) valvate with the margins curved outwardly.
• adj. (botany) folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another.
• v. (linguistics) To repeat a word or section of a word in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with…

relief

• n. The removal of stress or discomfort.
• n. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
• n. The person who takes over a shift for another.
• n. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
• n. (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
• n. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; short for tax relief.
• n. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
• n. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation…
• n. The difference of elevations on a surface.
• adj. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
• adj. Of or used in letterpress.

reliever

• n. (baseball) A relief pitcher.
• n. Someone who fills in for another.

repeat

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
• v. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
• v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
• v. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
• v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method…
• n. An iteration; a repetition.
• n. A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial…
• n. Patterns of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.

replicate

• v. To make a copy (replica) of.
• v. (sciences) To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
• v. (obsolete) To reply.
• n. an outcome of a replication procedure; an exact copy or replica.
• adj. (botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.

reproduce

• v. To produce an image or copy of something.
• v. (biology) To generate offspring (sexually or asexually), or organisms.
• v. To produce again; to recreate.
• v. To bring something to mind; to recall.

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.

safety

• n. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
• n. (mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
• n. (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the…
• n. (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage…
• n. Preservation from escape; close custody.
• n. (dated) A safety bicycle.
• v. (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even…

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

stand-in

• n. A person of similar size and shape to an actor that "stands-in" for the actor during the lengthy process…
• n. A substitute.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

threefold

• adj. three times as great.
• adj. triple.
• adv. by a factor of three.
• n. (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 3.

treble

• adj. Threefold, triple.
• adj. (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
• adj. High in pitch; shrill.
• adv. Trebly; triply.
• n. (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
• n. (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
• n. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
• n. A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
• n. A drink with three portions of alcohol.
• n. (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times…
• n. (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
• v. (transitive) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
• v. (intransitive) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
• v. (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine.

twice

• adv. Two times.
• adv. (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.

two-bagger

• n. (baseball, slang) A double (a two-base hit).
• n. (slang, pejorative) An extremely unattractive person (usually female), the insinuation being that one…

two-fold

• adj. Alternative spelling of twofold.

twofold

• adj. Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.
• adj. Having two parts, especially two different parts.
• adv. In a double degree; doubly.

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.