attack | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: onrush, onset, onslaught |
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(noun) a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase | Synonyms: tone-beginning |
(noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attempt |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: approach, plan of attack |
(noun) an offensive move in a sport or game | - |
(noun) strong criticism | - |
(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: blast, fire, flack, flak |
(noun) the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) | - |
(noun) a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition | - |
(verb) begin to injure | - |
(verb) set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task | - |
(verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, lash out, round, snipe |
(verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: assail |
(verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: aggress |
(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, assault, set on |
attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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bioattack | (noun) the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food | Synonyms: biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare, BW |
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chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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counterattack | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: countermove |
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(noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterplay |
(verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
hackmatack | (noun) poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves | Synonyms: balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera, tacamahac |
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hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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(noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
haystack | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, rick |
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smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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stack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: smokestack |
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(noun) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store |
(noun) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack |
(noun) an orderly pile | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad |
(verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, pile |
(verb) load or cover with stacks | - |
(verb) arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances | - |
stacked | (adjective) arranged in a stack | - |
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(adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed |
stacker | (noun) a laborer who builds up a stack or pile | - |
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stacks | (noun) storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored | - |
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(noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads |
tack | (noun) sailing a zigzag course | - |
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(noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tacking |
(noun) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head | - |
(noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear |
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet |
(noun) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails | - |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
(verb) fasten with tacks | - |
(verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
(verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
(verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
(verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
tacker | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, staplegun |
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(noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: baster |
(noun) a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding) | - |
tackiness | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tat |
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(noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness |
tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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(noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
tackle | (noun) (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground | - |
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(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards | - |
(noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: rigging |
(noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig |
(noun) the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team | - |
(verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
(verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
(verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
tackler | (noun) a football player who tackles the ball carrier | - |
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tacky | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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(adjective) (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch | - |
thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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(verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |
ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock |
ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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tintack | (noun) tack or small nail of tinned iron | - |
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unattackable | (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable |
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