Synonyms of the word

hitch

• n. A sudden pull.
• n. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope . See List of hitch knots…
• n. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
• n. (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
• n. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
• n. A period of time. Most often refers to time spent in the military.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
• v. (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
• v. (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
• v. (informal, transitive) contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
• v. (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
• v. (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
• v. (Britain) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

arrest

• n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

buck

• n. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the…
• n. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
• n. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
• n. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
• n. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
• n. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
• n. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
• n. (US, slang) One hundred.
• n. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object,…
• n. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
• n. (finance, jargon) One million dollars.
• n. (informal) A euro.
• n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
• n. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal…
• n. (African American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
• v. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
• v. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down…
• v. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
• v. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together,…
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal;…
• v. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb…
• v. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
• v. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter.
• n. (Scotland) The beech tree.
• n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
• n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
• v. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
• v. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
• v. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

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.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

connect

• v. (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable…
• v. (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching,…
• v. (transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to…
• v. (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to…
• v. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
• v. To associate.
• v. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

connecter

• n. A connector.

connection

• n. (uncountable) The act of connecting.
• n. The point at which two or more things are connected.
• n. A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
• n. An established communications or transportation link.
• n. (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
• n. A kinship relationship between people.
• n. (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is…

connective

• adj. Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
• n. That which connects.
• n. (logic) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
• n. (grammar) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
• n. (botany) The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
• n. (anatomy, zoology) A connective tissue.

connector

• n. One who connects.
• n. A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together…
• n. A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange…
• n. (computing) A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.
• n. (computing) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database…

connexion

• n. (chiefly Britain) Dated spelling of connection.
• n. (Britain, religion, historical) A circuit of prayer groups who employed travelling ministers alongside…

encumbrance

• n. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
• n. (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

enlistment

• n. Voluntary service based on an individuals' desire to serve a cause.

gait

• n. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
• n. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
• v. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

gimp

• n. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse…
• n. Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or…
• n. The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
• n. (dated, chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption; spirit; ambition; vigor; pep.
• v. (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight…
• v. (dated) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
• n. (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
• n. (informal) A crippled leg.
• n. (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
• n. (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient…
• n. (BDSM) A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism)…
• v. (informal) To limp; to hobble.
• adj. (dated, Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

halt

• v. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
• v. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay;…
• v. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
• v. (intransitive) To stop marching.
• v. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
• v. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
• n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
• n. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
• adj. (archaic) Lame, limping.
• v. To limp.
• v. To waver.
• v. To falter.
• n. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

hang-up

• n. an emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex.
• n. an unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch.

hinderance

• n. Archaic spelling of hindrance.

hindrance

• n. Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
• n. The state or act of hindering something.

hitchhike

• v. To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking…
• v. To be carried along with something else, for example Genetic Hitchhiking where a gene is propagated because…

hobble

• n. Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing…
• n. An unsteady, off-balance step.
• v. To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
• v. To walk lame, or unevenly.
• v. (figuratively) To move roughly or irregularly.
• v. To perplex; to embarrass.

impediment

• n. A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.

impedimenta

• n. Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military…
• n. plural of impedimentum.

inaction

• n. Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

inactiveness

• n. The quality of being inactive.

inactivity

• n. The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.

incumbrance

• n. A burden; a thing that must be carried.
• n. (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

interference

• n. The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
• n. (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
• n. (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves, such as a distortion on a broadcast…
• n. (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of…
• n. (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing…

jerk

• n. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
• n. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered,…
• n. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
• n. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
• n. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
• v. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• v. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
• v. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
• v. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
• v. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
• v. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
• n. (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
• n. (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
• v. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

knot

• n. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without…
• n. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
• n. A maze-like pattern.
• n. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction…
• n. A difficult situation.
• n. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
• n. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
• n. A protuberant joint in a plant.
• n. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
• n. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
• n. (engineering) A node.
• n. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
• n. (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number…
• n. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly).
• v. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
• v. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
• v. To unite closely; to knit together.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
• n. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

limp

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen; befall; chance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come upon; meet.
• adj. flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
• adj. lacking stiffness; flimsy.
• adj. (of a penis) not erect.
• adj. (of a man) not having an erect penis.
• adj. physically weak.
• v. (intransitive) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
• n. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore…
• v. (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
• v. (poker slang, intransitive) To call.
• n. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
• n. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
• n. A code-word among Jacobites, standing for Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of…

link

• n. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
• n. One element of a chain or other connected series.
• n. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
• n. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
• n. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
• n. (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
• n. (figuratively) an individual person or element in a system.
• n. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
• n. A sausage that is not a patty.
• n. (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod,…
• n. (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting…
• n. (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches,…
• n. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force…
• v. (transitive) To connect two or more things.
• v. (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
• v. (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
• n. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
• v. (Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

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…

obstacle

• n. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress.

obstructer

• n. Someone who obstructs, agent noun of obstruct.

obstruction

• n. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
• n. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
• n. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions;…

obstructor

• n. Alternative form of obstructer.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

preventative

• adj. Alternative form of preventive.
• n. Alternative form of preventive.

preventive

• adj. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
• adj. Carried out to deter military aggression.
• adj. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
• adj. (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
• n. (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
• n. (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
• n. A contraceptive, especially a condom.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

rub

• n. An act of rubbing.
• n. A difficulty or problem.
• n. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
• n. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure…
• v. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
• v. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
• v. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
• v. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
• v. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
• v. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

snag

• n. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot;…
• n. Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into…
• n. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
• n. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly…
• n. (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
• n. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
• n. One of the secondary branches of an antler.
• v. To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
• v. (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather…
• v. (slang) To obtain or pick up (something).
• v. (slang) To stealthily steal with legerdemain prowess (something).
• v. (Britain, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A light meal.
• n. (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
• n. (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
• n. A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).

stay

• v. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
• v. (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
• v. (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
• v. (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
• v. (transitive) To hold the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; await.
• v. (intransitive) To rest; depend; rely.
• v. (intransitive) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end; cease.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stand; stand.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
• v. (intransitive) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
• v. (intransitive, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to have a particular quality.
• v. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
• v. (obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
• v. To cause to cease; to put an end to.
• v. To fasten or secure with stays.
• n. A prop; a support.
• n. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
• n. That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
• n. A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
• n. (archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
• n. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
• n. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
• n. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
• n. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
• n. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
• n. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
• n. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
• n. (nautical) A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other…
• n. A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole,…
• n. (chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Steep; ascending.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Steeply.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

stoppage

• n. A pause or halt of some activity.
• n. Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity; a blockage or obstruction.

thumb

• n. The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved…
• n. (computing) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
• n. (colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
• v. (transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.
• v. (transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
• v. (travel) To hitchhike.
• v. To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
• v. using the thumb to manipulate an object, such as to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
• v. a method of firing single action revolvers quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depresses.

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

tour

• n. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
• n. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
• n. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
• n. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
• n. (military) A tour of duty.
• n. (graph theory) A closed trail.
• n. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
• v. (intransitive) To make a journey.
• v. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place.
• n. (dated) A tower.
• v. To toot a horn.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.