Synonyms of the word

rip

• n. A tear (in paper, etc.).
• n. A type of tide or current.
• n. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
• n. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
• v. (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric),…
• v. (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move quickly and destructively.
• v. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable…
• v. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
• v. (slang) To fart.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on).
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
• v. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
• v. (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover;…
• v. (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
• n. A wicker basket for fish.
• n. (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
• n. (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

blood

• n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen…
• n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to…
• n. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
• n. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
• n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
• n. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
• n. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
• n. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
• v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
• v. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
• v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

buck

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

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

countercurrent

• n. A current that flows against the prevailing one.
• adj. Running in an opposite direction.

crosscurrent

• n. (nautical) A turbulent stretch of water caused by multiple currents.
• n. (by extension) A situation in which there are conflicting opinions.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

debauchee

• n. Somebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint.
• n. Person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

libertine

• n. (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
• n. One who is freethinking in religious matters.
• n. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety;…
• adj. Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

profligate

• adj. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
• adj. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
• adj. (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
• n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
• n. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
• v. (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

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.

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.

rakehell

• adj. (archaic) Immoral; dissolute.
• n. (archaic) A lewd or wanton person; a debauchee; a rake.

rend

• v. (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst.
• v. (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
• v. (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
• n. A violent separation of parts.

rent

• n. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
• n. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
• n. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade…
• n. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
• n. (obsolete) income; revenue.
• v. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
• v. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
• v. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
• v. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
• n. A tear or rip in some surface.
• n. A division or schism.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rend.

riptide

• n. A particularly strong tidal current.
• n. A rip current which may carry a swimmer offshore (the term rip tide used in this sense is a misnomer).

rive

• v. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
• v. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
• v. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
• n. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

round

• adj. (physical) Shape.
• adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
• adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
• adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• adj. Large in magnitude.
• n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• n. A circular or repetitious route.
• n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
• n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
• n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
• n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
• n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
• n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
• n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
• n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
• n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
• n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• n. A circular dance.
• n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
• n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
• n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• n. (nautical) A round-top.
• n. A round of beef.
• prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• adv. Alternative form of around.
• v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
• v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
• v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• v. To encircle; to encompass.
• v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
• v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

rounder

• adj. comparative form of round: more round.
• n. A Methodist preacher traveling a circuit, also referred to as a circuit rider.
• n. A railroad man who worked at a roundhouse, operating the turntable.
• n. A person who earns a living by playing cards.
• n. A person who makes the rounds of bars, saloons, and similar establishments; figuratively, a debaucher…
• n. One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
• n. A tool for making an edge or surface round.

rupture

• n. A burst, split, or break.
• n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
• n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
• n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

snag

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

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

snipe

• n. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family…
• n. A fool; a blockhead.
• n. A shot fired from a concealed place.
• n. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
• v. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
• v. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
• v. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
• v. (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder)…
• v. (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
• n. (slang) A cigarette butt.
• n. An animated promotional logo during a television show.
• n. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement…
• n. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle…
• n. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
• v. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

split

• adj. Divided.
• adj. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
• adj. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
• adj. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price…
• adj. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than the usual eighths.
• adj. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred…
• n. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
• n. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
• n. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
• n. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
• n. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading…
• n. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
• n. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between…
• n. A split shot or split stroke.
• n. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
• n. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard …
• n. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
• n. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
• n. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
• n. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt…
• n. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
• v. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
• v. (intransitive) Of something solid particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a…
• v. (transitive) To share; to divide.
• v. (slang) To leave.
• v. to separate or break up.
• v. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
• v. To burst out laughing.
• v. (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
• v. (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and…

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

turbulence

• n. (uncountable) The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.
• n. (uncountable) Disturbance in a gas or fluid, characterized by evidence of internal motion or unrest.
• n. (uncountable) Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.
• n. An instance or type of such state or disturbance.

turbulency

• n. Archaic form of turbulence.