shoebird | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebill |
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shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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(noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
shoed | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shodden |
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shoeful | (noun) the amount that a shoe will hold | - |
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shoegazing | (noun) A subgenre of alternative rock typified by significant use of guitar distortion, feedback, obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable "walls of sound" | - |
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shoehorn | (noun) a device used for easing the foot into a shoe | - |
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(verb) fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited | - |
shoelace | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoestring |
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shoeless | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, barefooted |
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shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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shoes | (noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: place |
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shoeshine | (noun) the act of shining shoes | - |
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(noun) a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing | - |
shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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(noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
shoetree | (noun) a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn | - |
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(verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: tree |
shofar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shophar |
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shogi | (noun) a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces | - |
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shogun | (noun) a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68 | - |
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shogunate | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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shoji | (noun) a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper | - |
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shoo | (verb) drive away by crying `shoo!' | Synonyms: shoo away, shoo off |
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shoofly | (noun) a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck) | - |
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(noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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(noun) a new branch | - |
(verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
(verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
(verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
(verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
(verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
(verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
(verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
(verb) score | - |
(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
(verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
(verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
(verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
(verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
(verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
(verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
(verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
(verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
(verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
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(noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shot |
(noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman |
(noun) (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | - |
(noun) a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps | Synonyms: crap-shooter |
shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
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(noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: store |
(noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: workshop |
(verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, snitch, stag, tell on |
(verb) do one's shopping | - |
(verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: browse |
(verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop at, sponsor |
shopaholic | (noun) a compulsive shopper | - |
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shopfront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: storefront |
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shophar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shofar |
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shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
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shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
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(noun) a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her | - |
shopping | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | - |
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(noun) the commodities purchased from stores | - |
shopsoiled | (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopworn |
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shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
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shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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shopworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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(adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopsoiled |
shore | (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shoring |
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(noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | - |
(verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
(verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
(verb) serve as a shore to | - |
shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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shoreline | (noun) a boundary line between land and water | - |
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shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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(noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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(adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
(adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
(adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
(adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
(adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
(adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
(adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
(adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
(adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
(noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: shortstop |
(noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | - |
(noun) accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference | Synonyms: short circuit |
(adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, shortly |
(adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: unawares |
(adverb) so as to interrupt | - |
(adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached | - |
(adverb) clean across | - |
(adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold | - |
(adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, suddenly |
(verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
(verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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shortcoming | (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: defect |
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shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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(verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
(verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
(verb) make short or shorter | - |
shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
(adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
(adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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(noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
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shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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(noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: stenography, tachygraphy |
shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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shortia | (noun) any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers | - |
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shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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(verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
shortly | (adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, presently, soon |
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(adverb) for a short time | - |
(adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, short |
(adverb) at a short distance | - |
(adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: briefly, concisely, in brief, in short |
shortness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness |
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(noun) the property of being shorter than average stature | - |
(noun) the property of being of short temporal extent | - |
(noun) the property of being of short spatial extent | - |
(noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: truncation |
(noun) the condition of being short of something | - |
shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
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(noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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(adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
(adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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(noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
shot | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent |
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(noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shooting |
(noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: injection |
(noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: stab |
(noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | Synonyms: stroke |
(noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: blastoff |
(noun) an attempt to score in a game | - |
(noun) a blow hard enough to cause injury | - |
(noun) throwing the basketball toward the hoop | Synonyms: basketball shot |
(noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: pellet |
(noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: snap, snapshot |
(noun) an explosive charge used in blasting | - |
(noun) sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put | - |
(noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam |
(noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: scene |
(noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shooter |
(noun) a small drink of liquor | Synonyms: nip |
(noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: crack |
shote | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, piglet, shoat |
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shotgun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: scattergun |
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shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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(noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
(noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
(noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
(noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
(verb) push with the shoulders | - |
(verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
(verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
shouldered | (adjective) having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form | - |
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shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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(verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
(verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
shouted | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | Synonyms: yelled |
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shouter | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, yeller |
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shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
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(noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
shove | (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | - |
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(verb) push roughly | - |
(verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
(verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
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(noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
(noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
(noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
(verb) dig with or as if with a shovel | - |
shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
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shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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(noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
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shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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(noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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show | (noun) an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment | - |
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(noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: appearance |
(noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: display |
(verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
(verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
(verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
(verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
(verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
(verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
(verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
(verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
showboat | (noun) a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River) | - |
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showboy | (noun) a man who dances in a chorus line | - |
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showcase | (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: case, display case, vitrine |
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(noun) a setting in which something can be displayed to best effect | Synonyms: show window |
showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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shower | (noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle | Synonyms: shower bath |
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(noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | - |
(noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: cascade |
(noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person | - |
(noun) a brief period of precipitation | Synonyms: rain shower |
(noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor |
(verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
(verb) provide abundantly with | - |
(verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
(verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
(verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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showgirl | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorine, chorus girl |
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showily | (adverb) with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner | Synonyms: ostentatiously |
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(adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flamboyantly, flashily |
showiness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, floridness |
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showing | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
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(noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, viewing |
showjumping | (noun) riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles | Synonyms: stadium jumping |
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