Synonyms of the word

perch

• n. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
• n. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae.
• n. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
• n. a rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a bird.
• n. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
• n. a position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
• n. (dated) a linear measure of 5½ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¼ chain; the related square measure.
• n. a cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
• n. (textiles) a frame used to examine cloth.
• n. A bar used to support a candle (especially in a church).
• v. (intransitive) To rest on (or as if on) a perch; to roost.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
• v. (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.

alight

• v. (transitive) To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.
• v. (intransitive, with from) To get off or exit a vehicle or animal; to descend; to dismount.
• v. (intransitive, with on) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
• v. (intransitive, followed by "upon") To find by accident.
• v. (transitive) To light; light up; illuminate.
• v. (transitive) To set light to; light.
• adj. Lit, on fire, switched on.
• adj. (figuratively) Lit; on fire, burning.

land

• n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
• n. A country or region.
• n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• n. A general country, state, or territory.
• n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
• n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
• n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
• n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
• n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
• v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
• v. (transitive) To bring to land.
• v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
• v. (transitive) To deliver.
• adj. Of or relating to land.
• adj. Residing or growing on land.
• n. lant; urine.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

percoid

• adj. Of or belonging to Percoidea, a taxonomic superfamily in the order Perciformes.
• n. (obsolete) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae (originally named "Percoides"…
• n. Any fish in the superfamily Percoidea.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pole

• n. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for…
• n. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
• n. A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.
• n. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
• n. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
• n. (motor racing) Pole position.
• v. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
• v. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
• v. (transitive) To convey on poles.
• v. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
• n. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other…
• n. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north…
• n. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
• n. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or…
• n. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
• n. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
• v. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

rest

• n. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
• n. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
• n. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
• n. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state…
• n. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
• n. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
• n. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
• n. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
• n. (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the…
• n. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
• n. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
• n. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
• n. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
• n. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals…
• n. (dated) A set or game at tennis.
• v. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without…
• v. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
• v. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
• v. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding,…
• v. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
• v. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
• v. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
• v. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
• v. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
• n. (uncountable) That which remains.
• n. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
• n. (Britain, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the…
• v. (obsolete) To remain.
• v. (obsolete) To arrest.

rod

• n. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
• n. (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
• n. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer…
• n. An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment,…
• n. A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along…
• n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters…
• n. An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used…
• n. (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
• n. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or…
• n. (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
• n. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
• n. (chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in…
• n. (slang) A pistol; a gun.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A penis.
• n. (slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with…
• n. (ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen…
• n. (mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
• n. (rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
• v. (construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
• v. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To penetrate sexually.

roost

• n. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
• n. A group of birds roosting together.
• v. (of birds) sleep.
• n. (Shetland and Orkney) A tidal race.
• v. Alternative form of roust.

seat

• n. Something to be sat upon.
• n. A location or site.
• n. The starting point of a fire.
• n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
• v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
• v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
• v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
• v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
• v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
• v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
• v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
• v. To put a seat or bottom in.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

sit

• v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the…
• v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
• v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
• v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
• v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
• v. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
• v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
• v. To be adjusted; to fit.
• v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
• v. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
• v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit.
• v. (transitive, US) To babysit.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
• v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
• v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture…
• v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
• n. (rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.