abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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(adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
(adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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(adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
(adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
(adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
(adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
(adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
(adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
(noun) slang term for a woman | - |
broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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(adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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(noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
(noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
(noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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(noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
(verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
(verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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(noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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(noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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(verb) make broader | - |
(verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
(verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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(noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
(noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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broadloom | (adjective) (of rugs or carpets) woven full width | - |
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(noun) a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams | - |
broadly | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly speaking, generally, loosely |
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(adverb) in a wide fashion | - |
broadness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: wideness |
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broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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(noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
(noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
(noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
(noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
(adverb) with a side facing an object | - |
(verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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(noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
broadwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, breadthwise |
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busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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(noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
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cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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coadjutor | (noun) an assistant to a bishop | - |
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crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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(noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
(noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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fibroadenoma | (noun) benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen | - |
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freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
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(noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
(verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: needle |
(verb) urge with or as if with a goad | - |
(verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: prick |
(verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: spur |
goaded | (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: driven |
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goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
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highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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hypoadrenalism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin | Synonyms: Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenocorticism |
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hypoadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin | Synonyms: Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenalism |
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inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
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(noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
load | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, loading |
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(noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: payload, warhead |
(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment |
(noun) electrical device to which electrical power is delivered | - |
(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus |
(noun) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks | Synonyms: lode |
(noun) the power output of a generator or power plant | - |
(noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: loading |
(noun) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate | - |
(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch |
(verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
(verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
(verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
(verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
loaded | (adjective) (of weapons) charged with ammunition | - |
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(adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, ladened |
(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
(adjective) (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence | - |
(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
loader | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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(noun) an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | - |
loading | (noun) the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc. | - |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, payload, shipment |
(noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, load |
(noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: load |
(noun) the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift | - |
loads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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loadstar | (noun) something that serves as a model or guide | Synonyms: lodestar |
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(noun) guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy | Synonyms: lodestar |
loadstone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: lodestone |
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offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
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(verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
ogdoad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, VIII |
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overload | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overburden |
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(noun) an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power | - |
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: clog |
(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge |
(verb) become overloaded | - |
overloaded | (adjective) loaded past capacity | Synonyms: overladen |
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payload | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, shipment |
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(noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, warhead |
railroad | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
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(noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad track, railway |
(verb) transport by railroad | - |
(verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
(verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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railroading | (noun) the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads | Synonyms: rail technology |
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rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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(verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
reload | (verb) place a new load on | - |
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(verb) load anew | Synonyms: recharge |
road | (noun) a way or means to achieve something | - |
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(noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: route |
roadbed | (noun) a bed supporting a road | - |
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roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
roadbook | (noun) a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer | - |
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roadhog | (noun) a driver who obstructs others | Synonyms: road hog |
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roadhouse | (noun) an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
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roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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roadless | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
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roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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(noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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roads | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roadstead |
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roadside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: wayside |
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roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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(noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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roadworthiness | (noun) (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road | - |
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shipload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, carload |
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superload | (noun) a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic | Synonyms: live load |
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toad | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad frog |
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toadfish | (noun) bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth | Synonyms: Opsanus tau |
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toadflax | (noun) common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America | Synonyms: butter-and-eggs, devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris, wild snapdragon |
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toadshade | (noun) trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor | Synonyms: red trillium, sessile trillium, Trillium sessile |
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toadstool | (noun) common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) | - |
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toady | (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, sycophant |
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(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, truckle |
toadyish | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic |
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(adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic |
trainload | (noun) quantity that can be carried by a train | - |
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unload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unlade |
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(verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down |
unloaded | (adjective) (of weapons) not charged with ammunition | - |
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unloading | (noun) the labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc. | - |
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upload | (verb) transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location | - |
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woad | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Isatis | - |
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(noun) a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant | - |
woadwaxen | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woodwaxen |
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workload | (noun) work that a person is expected to do in a specified time | Synonyms: work load |
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