Synonyms of the word

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

accommodate

• v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
• v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
• v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
• v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
• v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
• v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

adapt

• v. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
• v. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
• v. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
• v. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
• adj. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

approach

• v. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
• v. (transitive) To come near to in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
• v. To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
• v. To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
• v. (transitive, military) To take approaches to.
• v. To bring near; to cause to draw near.
• n. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
• n. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
• n. (in the plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.
• n. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
• n. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
• n. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers…
• n. (golf, tennis) An approach shot.
• n. The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
• n. (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

bitumen

• n. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew’s pitch. It occurs as an abundant…
• n. By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called…
• n. (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.

cant

• n. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
• n. Shelta.
• n. (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
• n. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
• n. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some…
• n. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
• v. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
• v. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
• v. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
• v. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
• v. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
• n. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
• n. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
• n. A corner (of a building).
• n. An outer or external angle.
• n. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
• n. A movement or throw that overturns something.
• n. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias…
• n. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
• n. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
• n. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
• v. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
• v. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
• v. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
• v. (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) lively, lusty.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

deliver

• v. To set free.
• v. (process) To do with birth.
• v. To free from or disburden of anything.
• v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
• v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
• v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
• v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
• v. To discover; to show.
• v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
• v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

descend

• v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
• v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
• v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
• v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
• v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

erect

• adj. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
• adj. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
• adj. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
• adj. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
• adj. Watchful; alert.
• adj. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
• v. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
• v. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
• v. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
• v. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
• v. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
• v. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
• v. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

fling

• n. An act of throwing, often violently.
• n. An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
• n. An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
• n. A short, often sexual, relationship.
• n. (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
• n. (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
• n. A kind of dance.
• n. (obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
• v. (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.

flip

• n. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
• n. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
• n. (US, slang) A slingshot.
• v. (transitive) To throw (as in to turn over).
• v. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
• v. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
• v. To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
• v. (computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
• interj. (Britain, mildly vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
• adj. Sarcastic.
• adj. (informal) Disrespectful.
• n. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog).

gear

• n. (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
• n. Clothing; garments.
• n. (obsolete) goods; property; household items.
• n. (countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices…
• n. (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio…
• n. (countable) a configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of…
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, including steroids.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) stuff.
• n. (obsolete) business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear…
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
• v. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• adj. (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic.

gradient

• n. A slope or incline.
• n. A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
• n. (calculus) Of a function y = f(x) or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of y with respect…
• n. (sciences) The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given…
• n. (analysis) A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction…
• adj. Moving by steps; walking.
• adj. Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
• adj. Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

hawk

• n. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
• n. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such…
• n. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions; a warmonger.
• n. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting,…
• v. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
• v. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
• n. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior…
• v. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place…
• n. An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

hit

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

huckster

• n. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
• n. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
• n. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
• n. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
• n. A mean, deceptive person.
• v. (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
• v. (transitive) To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

lurch

• n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
• v. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
• v. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
• n. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
• n. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
• v. (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
• v. (obsolete) To steal; to rob.

monger

• n. (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity.
• n. (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable.
• n. A small merchant vessel.
• n. Clipping of whoremonger.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To sell or peddle something.

motility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
• n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

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…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

packaging

• v. present participle of package.
• n. the act of packing something.
• n. the materials used to pack something.
• n. the industry that produces such material.
• n. (by extension) the manner in which a person or product is promoted.

peddle

• v. To sell things, especially door to door.
• v. To sell illegal narcotics.
• v. (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.

pitching

• v. present participle of pitch.
• n. The act of throwing or casting.
• n. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
• n. (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

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).

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

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.

promotion

• n. An advancement in rank or position.
• n. (marketing) Dissemination of positive information about a product, product line, brand, or company.
• n. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.).

publicity

• n. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
• n. Public interest attracted in this way.
• n. The condition of being the object of public attention.

rake

• n. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris,…
• n. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
• n. (rail transport) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
• n. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
• n. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
• n. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
• n. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
• v. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris…
• v. To search thoroughly.
• v. To spray with gunfire.
• v. To claw at; to scratch.
• v. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in).
• v. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
• n. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
• n. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
• n. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct.
• v. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
• n. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
• n. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
• n. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.
• v. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

sell

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
• v. (ergative) To be sold.
• v. To promote a product or service.
• v. To promote a particular viewpoint.
• v. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
• v. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate…
• n. An act of selling.
• n. An easy task.
• n. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
• n. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
• n. (archaic) A saddle.
• n. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

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.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

sky

• n. (obsolete) A cloud.
• n. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
• n. The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate…
• n. Heaven.
• v. (sports) To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
• v. (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well…
• v. (colloquial) To drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container.

slant

• n. A slope; an incline, inclination.
• n. A sloped surface or line.
• n. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
• n. An oblique movement or course.
• n. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
• n. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
• n. A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolors.
• n. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
• n. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
• n. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement…
• n. (originally US) A point of view, an angle; a bias.
• n. (US) A look, a glance.
• n. (US, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
• v. To lean, tilt or incline.
• v. To bias or skew.

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

tar

• n. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from…
• n. Coal tar.
• n. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
• n. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
• n. Black tar, a form of heroin.
• v. (transitive) To coat with tar.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• n. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
• n. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
• v. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
• n. (music) A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle…
• n. (music) A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

throw

• v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
• v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
• v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
• v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
• v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
• v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
• v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
• v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
• v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
• v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
• v. (transitive) To imprison.
• v. To organize an event, especially a party.
• v. To roll (a die or dice).
• v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
• v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
• v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
• v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
• v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
• v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
• v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
• v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
• v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
• n. The flight of a thrown object.
• n. The act of throwing something.
• n. One's ability to throw.
• n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
• n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
• n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
• n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
• n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
• v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
• n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
• n. Misspelling of throe.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…

trade

• n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
• n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
• n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
• n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
• n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
• n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
• n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
• n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
• n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
• n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
• n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
• v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
• v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

vend

• v. to hawk or to peddle merchandise.
• v. to sell wares through a vending machine.
• n. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
• n. (Britain, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.