salute | (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salutation |
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(noun) a formal military gesture of respect | Synonyms: military greeting |
(noun) an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat | - |
(verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
(verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
(verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
(verb) express commendation of | - |
(verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
(verb) become noticeable | - |
saluter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, welcomer |
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salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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(noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
(noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
(verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
salvageable | (adjective) capable of being saved from ruin | - |
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salvager | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvor |
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salvation | (noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: redemption |
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(noun) a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness | - |
(noun) saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation | - |
(noun) the state of being saved or preserved from harm | - |
salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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(noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
(verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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salvia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: sage |
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salvific | (adjective) pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption | - |
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salving | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, softening |
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salvinorin | (noun) a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum | - |
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salvo | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, volley |
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(noun) a sudden outburst of cheers | - |
(noun) an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs | - |
salvor | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvager |
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salwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: shalwar |
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sinistrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorse |
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sisal | (noun) Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope | Synonyms: Agave sisalana |
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(noun) a plant fiber used for making rope | Synonyms: sisal hemp |
spousal | (adjective) relating to a spouse | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, nuptial |
supposal | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposition |
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(noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposition |
surmisal | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise |
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surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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tarsal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot | - |
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(noun) any bone of the tarsus | Synonyms: tarsal bone |
thimerosal | (noun) a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic | Synonyms: Merthiolate, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate |
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transalpine | (adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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(noun) one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy | - |
transversal | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, thwartwise, transverse |
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transversally | (adverb) in a transverse manner | Synonyms: transversely |
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traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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(noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
universal | (adjective) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations | - |
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(adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide |
(adjective) applicable to or common to all members of a group or set | - |
(noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
(noun) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings | - |
(noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class | Synonyms: universal proposition |
(noun) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages | Synonyms: linguistic universal |
universalise | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalize |
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universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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universalist | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalistic |
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universalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to the whole | - |
universality | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: catholicity |
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universalize | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalise |
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universally | (adverb) in every case | - |
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unsalable | (adjective) impossible to sell | Synonyms: unsaleable |
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unsalaried | (adjective) not paying a salary | Synonyms: uncompensated |
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unsaleable | (adjective) impossible to sell | Synonyms: unsalable |
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unsalted | (adjective) without salt or seasoning | Synonyms: unseasoned |
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vassal | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, liegeman |
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vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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wholesale | (adjective) ignoring distinctions | Synonyms: sweeping |
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(noun) the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers | - |
(adverb) at a wholesale price | - |
(adverb) on a large scale without careful discrimination | Synonyms: in large quantities |
(verb) sell in large quantities | - |
wholesaler | (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, middleman |
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