Synonyms of the word

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

afflict

• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
• v. (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
• v. (obsolete) To make low or humble.

air

• n. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly.
• n. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical)…
• n. A breeze; a gentle wind.
• n. A feeling or sense.
• n. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
• n. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
• n. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
• n. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
• n. An air conditioner or the processed air it produces. Can be a mass noun or a count noun depending on context;…
• n. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
• n. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
• v. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
• v. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
• v. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
• v. To broadcast, as with a television show.

ancestry

• n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
• n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

attempt

• v. To try.
• v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
• v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
• v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
• n. The action of trying at something.
• n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

breed

• v. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
• v. Of animals, to mate.
• v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
• v. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
• v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
• v. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
• v. To yield or result in.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before…
• v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
• v. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
• v. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
• n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• n. A race or lineage.
• n. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

deform

• v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
• v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
• v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
• v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
• v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
• adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

deformation

• n. The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
• n. A transformation; change of shape.

derivation

• n. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
• n. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition,…
• n. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy.
• n. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
• n. That from which a thing is derived.
• n. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
• n. (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called…
• n. (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a…

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

distort

• v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
• v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
• adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

endeavor

• n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
• n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
• v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

• n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
• v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

exertion

• n. An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

extend

• v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
• v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
• v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
• v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
• v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
• v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
• v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

filiation

• n. (uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent.
• n. (countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline.
• n. (countable, law) The determination of paternity.
• n. (countable, law) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.

filter

• n. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other…
• n. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that…
• n. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
• n. (figuratively) self-restraint in speech.
• n. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary…
• v. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
• v. (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
• v. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
• v. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road.

filtrate

• n. The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from the filtride.
• v. To filter.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

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.

lineage

• n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line…
• n. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

meaning

• n. The symbolic value of something.
• n. The significance of a thing.
• n. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
• n. (obsolete) Intention.
• v. present participle of mean.
• adj. Having a (specified) intention.
• adj. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

melody

• n. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

music

• n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
• n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
• n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes…
• n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
• v. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

nerves

• n. plural of nerve.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nerve.

nervousness

• n. The state or quality of being nervous.

nisus

• n. A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
• n. The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
• n. The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.

pains

• n. plural of pain.
• n. (used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pain.

puree

• n. A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid.
• v. To crush or grind food into a puree.
• n. A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

reach

• v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
• v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
• v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
• v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
• v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
• v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
• v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
• v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
• v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
• n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
• n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
• n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
• n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
• n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
• n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
• n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
• n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

rub

• n. An act of rubbing.
• n. A difficulty or problem.
• n. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
• n. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure…
• v. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
• v. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
• v. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
• v. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
• v. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
• v. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

sieve

• n. A device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid…
• n. A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input…
• n. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
• n. (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of…
• v. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
• v. (sports) To concede; let in.

sift

• v. To sieve or strain (something).
• v. To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
• v. To examine (something) carefully.

song

• n. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
• n. (by extension) Any musical composition.
• n. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
• n. The act or art of singing.
• n. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
• n. (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory;…
• n. Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
• n. An object of derision; a laughing stock.

stock

• n. A store or supply.
• n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
• n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
• n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
• n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• n. A bar, stick or rod.
• n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
• n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
• n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
• n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
• n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
• n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
• n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
• n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
• n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
• n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
• n. The beater of a fulling mill.
• v. To have on hand for sale.
• v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
• v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
• v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
• v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
• v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
• adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
• adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
• adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
• n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

straining

• v. present participle of strain.
• n. The act by which one strains.

stress

• n. (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
• n. (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
• n. (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting…
• n. (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
• n. (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
• n. (uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
• n. (uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
• n. (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
• n. Obsolete form of distress.
• n. (Scotland, law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
• v. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
• v. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
• v. (informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
• v. To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
• v. To emphasise (words in speaking).
• v. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

strive

• v. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
• v. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
• v. To vie; to compete as a rival.
• n. (obsolete) An effort; a striving.
• n. (obsolete) strife; contention.

striving

• v. present participle of strive.
• n. Effort; the act of one who strives.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

sweat

• n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature…
• n. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
• n. (historical) The sweating sickness.
• n. Moisture issuing from any substance.
• n. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
• v. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
• v. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
• v. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit moisture.
• v. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
• v. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that…

taxon

• n. (taxonomy) Any of the taxonomic categories, such as phylum or subspecies.

tenor

• n. (music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
• n. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
• n. (archaic, music) Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor…
• n. Tone, as of a conversation.
• n. (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
• n. (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
• n. (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
• n. Stamp; character; nature.
• n. (law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which…
• n. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport;…
• adj. Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

tense

• n. (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs…
• n. (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
• n. (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of…
• v. (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
• adj. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
• adj. Pulled taut, without any slack.
• v. To make or become tense.

tighten

• v. (transitive) To make tighter.
• v. (intransitive) To become tighter.
• v. (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
• v. (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.

trauma

• n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
• n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
• n. An event that causes great distress.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

try

• v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
• v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
• v. To test, to work out.
• v. To experiment, to strive.
• v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
• v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
• v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
• n. An attempt.
• n. An act of tasting or sampling.
• n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
• n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
• adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

tug

• v. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort.
• v. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) to tow by tugboat.
• n. a sudden powerful pull.
• n. (nautical) a tugboat.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
• n. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
• n. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
• n. (slang) An act of masturbation.

tune

• n. A melody.
• n. A song, or short musical composition.
• n. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
• n. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
• n. (Britain, slang) A very good song.
• n. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
• n. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
• v. To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
• v. To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions…
• v. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
• v. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
• v. To sing with melody or harmony.
• v. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

• v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
• v. To make use of; to use.
• v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
• v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilize

• v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.

var.

• adj. Abbreviation of variable.
• adj. Abbreviation of various.
• n. Abbreviation of variant.
• n. Abbreviation of variation.
• n. (botany, taxonomy) Abbreviation of variety.
• n. Abbreviation of variometer.

variant

• adj. Showing variety, diverse.
• adj. Showing deviation or disagreement.
• adj. (obsolete) Variable.
• n. Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
• n. (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
• n. (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same…

variety

• n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
• n. A specific variation of something.
• n. A number of different things.
• n. A state of constant change.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
• n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect,…
• n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying…
• n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
• n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.