Synonyms of the word

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

beak

• n. Anatomical uses.
• n. Figurative uses.
• n. Colloquial uses.
• v. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
• v. (transitive) Seize with the beak.

blame

• n. Censure.
• n. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
• n. Responsibility for something meriting censure.
• n. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion…
• v. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
• v. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
• v. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative;…

choice

• n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
• n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
• n. Anything that can be chosen.
• n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
• n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
• n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
• adj. Especially good or preferred.
• adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

choose

• v. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
• v. To elect.
• v. To decide to act in a certain way.
• v. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
• conj. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.

clean

• adj. (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
• adj. (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
• adj. Smooth, exact, and performed well.
• adj. (obsolete) Total; utter.
• adj. (informal) Cool or neat.
• adj. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
• adj. That does not damage the environment.
• adj. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
• adj. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
• adj. Well-proportioned; shapely.
• adj. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
• n. Removal of dirt.
• n. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground…
• v. (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
• v. (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
• v. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
• v. (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure…
• v. (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting…
• v. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
• adv. Fully and completely.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

cream

• n. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
• n. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
• n. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped…
• n. (figuratively) The best part of something.
• n. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
• n. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
• adj. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
• v. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
• v. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
• v. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
• v. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
• v. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

criticise

• v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
• v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

• v. To find fault (with something).
• v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

cull

• v. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
• v. To gather, collect.
• v. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled…
• v. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
• v. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
• n. A selection.
• n. An organised killing of selected animals.
• n. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
• n. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

deciding

• v. present participle of decide.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

elite

• adj. Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
• adj. Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
• n. A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status…
• n. Someone who is among the best at a certain task.

evoke

• v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

filling

• adj. Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.
• n. Anything that is used to fill something.
• n. The contents of a pie, etc.
• n. (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
• n. The woof in woven fabrics.
• n. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
• v. present participle of fill.

foot

• n. (countable) A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently…
• n. (countable, anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing…
• n. (uncountable, often used attributively) Travel by walking.
• n. (countable) The base or bottom of anything.
• n. (countable) The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
• n. (countable) The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
• n. (countable) A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
• n. (countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
• n. (countable, music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle…
• n. (military, collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.
• n. (countable, cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
• n. (countable, sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve…
• n. (countable, printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
• n. (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
• n. (countable, prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
• n. (countable, phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine…
• n. (countable, nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
• n. (countable, billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
• n. (countable, botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached…
• n. (countable, malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds…
• n. (countable, molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
• n. (countable, geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
• n. (uncountable) Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
• n. (uncountable) Recognized condition; rank; footing.
• v. (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
• v. (transitive) To pay (a bill).
• v. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
• v. To walk.
• v. To tread.
• v. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
• v. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
• v. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

nibble

• n. A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
• n. (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
• v. (transitive) To eat with small, quick bites.
• v. (transitive) To bite lightly.
• v. (figuratively) To consume gradually.
• n. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.

option

• n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
• n. The freedom or right to choose.
• n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
• n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
• v. To purchase an option on something.
• v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

output

• n. (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
• n. (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
• n. (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
• v. (economics) To produce, create, or complete.
• v. (computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.

pay

• v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
• v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
• v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
• v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
• n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
• adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
• adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…

peck

• v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
• v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
• v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
• v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
• v. To type by searching for each key individually.
• v. (rare) To type in general.
• v. To kiss briefly.
• n. An act of pecking.
• n. A small kiss.
• n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• v. (regional) To throw.
• v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
• n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
• n. Misspelling of pec.

pickax

• n. Alternative spelling of pickaxe.
• v. Alternative spelling of pickaxe.

pickaxe

• n. A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
• v. To use a pickaxe.

picking

• v. present participle of pick.
• n. A gathering to pick fruit.
• n. (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
• n. (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable…

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

pierce

• v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
• v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
• v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
• v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

plectrum

• n. (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin,…
• n. (anatomy, zoology) An anatomical part resembling a plectrum in shape.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plunk

• v. (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
• v. (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
• v. (baseball, transitive) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
• v. (intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
• v. (transitive) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string); to twang.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
• n. The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
• n. (slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
• n. (slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.

production

• n. The act of producing, making or creating something.
• n. The act of bringing something forward, out etc. for use or consideration.
• n. The act of being produced.
• n. The total amount produced.
• n. The presentation of a theatrical work.
• n. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
• n. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual…
• n. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
• n. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate…

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

rob

• v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
• n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

select

• adj. Privileged, specially selected.
• adj. Of high quality; top-notch.
• v. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
• v. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

selection

• n. The process or act of selecting.
• n. Something selected.
• n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• n. A musical piece.
• n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

thread

• n. A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving…
• n. A theme or idea.
• n. (engineering) A screw thread.
• n. A sequence of connections.
• n. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
• n. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources…
• n. (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first…
• n. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
• n. (figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.
• v. (transitive) To put thread through.
• v. (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
• v. To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.

weft

• n. (weaving) The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
• n. (weaving) The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
• n. (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
• n. (obsolete) Something cast away; a waif.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

woof

• n. The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle; weft.
• n. A fabric; the texture of a fabric.
• n. The sound a dog makes when barking.
• interj. The sound of a dog barking.
• interj. (humorous) Expression of strong physical attraction for someone.
• v. To make a woofing sound.
• acr. (marketing) Well-off older folks.
• acr. (agriculture) Work on organic farm.

yarn

• n. (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
• n. (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands,…
• n. (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
• v. to tell a story.

yield

• v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
• v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
• v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
• v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
• v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
• v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
• v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
• v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
• v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
• v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
• n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
• n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
• n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.