Synonyms of the word

spur

• n. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse…
• n. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
• n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
• n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into…
• n. Roots, tree roots.
• n. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction,…
• n. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of…
• n. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• n. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
• n. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon…
• n. Ergotized rye or other grain.
• n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted…
• n. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot…
• n. (mining) A branch of a vein.
• v. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
• v. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to…
• v. To put spurs on.
• n. (Scotland) A sparrow.
• n. A tern.
• n. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath…
• n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

acantha

• n. (botany) A prickle.
• n. (zoology) A spine or prickly fin.
• n. (anatomy) A spinous process of a vertebra.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

boost

• n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
• n. (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.
• v. (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming…
• v. (slang, transitive) To steal.
• v. (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.

enation

• n. (botany) A small outgrowth on the surface of a plant organ.
• n. (botany, uncountable) The generation of such an outgrowth.

encourage

• v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
• v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
• v. To foster, give help or patronage.

encouragement

• n. The act of encouraging.
• n. Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive.
• n. Words or actions that increase someone's confidence.
• n. The feeling of being encouraged.

equip

• v. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever…
• v. (transitive) To dress up; to array; accouter.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

fit

• adj. Suitable, proper.
• adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• adj. In good shape; physically well.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
• adj. Prepared; ready.
• v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
• v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
• v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
• v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
• v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
• v. (transitive) To make ready.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
• v. To be proper or becoming.
• v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
• n. The degree to which something fits.
• n. Conformity of elements one to another.
• n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
• n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
• n. A seizure or convulsion.
• n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
• n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

further

• v. (transitive) To encourage growth.
• v. To support progress or growth of something.
• adj. comparative form of far: more far; of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree…
• adj. More, additional.
• adv. comparative form of far: more far.
• adv. (conjunctive) Also; in addition to.
• adv. (location) At greater distance in space or time; farther.
• adv. (conjunctive) Moreover; beyond what is already stated.

gad

• interj. An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
• v. (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
• n. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
• n. (obsolete) A metal bar.
• n. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
• n. (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the…
• n. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
• n. (Britain, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive…

goad

• n. A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
• v. To prod with a goad.
• v. To encourage or stimulate.
• v. To incite or provoke.

goading

• v. present participle of goad.
• n. The act by which somebody is goaded.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

outfit

• n. A set of clothing (with accessories).
• n. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
• n. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
• n. (informal) A business or firm.
• n. (sports) A sports team.
• n. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
• v. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.

prod

• v. To poke, to push, to touch.
• v. To encourage, to prompt.
• n. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
• n. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
• n. A poke.
• n. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
• n. (computing, programming) production.

prodding

• v. present participle of prod.
• n. The act of giving a prod.

projection

• n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
• n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
• n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
• n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
• n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
• n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
• n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
• n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
• n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
• n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
• n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

promote

• v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
• v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
• v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
• v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
• v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
• v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

spine

• n. The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to…
• n. Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures…
• n. A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
• n. (figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
• n. The stiffness of an arrow.

spurring

• v. present participle of spur.
• n. An application of the spurs to a horse.

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.

urging

• v. present participle of urge.