bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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(verb) divide into two branches | - |
(verb) split or divide into two | - |
bifurcated | (adjective) divided into or made up of two parts | - |
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bifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into two branches | - |
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(noun) the place where something divides into two branches | - |
(noun) a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) | - |
church | (noun) a service conducted in a house of worship | Synonyms: church service |
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(noun) a place for public (especially Christian) worship | Synonyms: church building |
(noun) one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship | Synonyms: Christian church |
(noun) the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church | - |
(verb) perform a special church rite or service for | - |
churchgoer | (noun) a religious person who goes to church regularly | Synonyms: church member |
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churchgoing | (adjective) actively practicing a religion | - |
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churchly | (adjective) resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church | - |
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churchman | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: cleric, divine, ecclesiastic |
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churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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churchyard | (noun) the yard associated with a church | Synonyms: God's acre |
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colourcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colorcast |
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crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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furcate | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, ramify, separate |
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furcation | (noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: forking |
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furcula | (noun) a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds | - |
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interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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kurchee | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchi |
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kurchi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee |
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lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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(noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
(noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
(noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
(verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
(verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
(verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
(verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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nonchurchgoing | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: lapsed |
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outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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(adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
purchase | (noun) the acquisition of something for payment | - |
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(noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: leverage |
(noun) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage | - |
(noun) something acquired by purchase | - |
(verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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purchasing | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: buying |
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repurchase | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, redemption |
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(verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
resource | (noun) a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed | - |
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(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resourcefulness |
(noun) available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed | - |
resourceful | (adjective) having inner resources; adroit or imaginative | - |
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resourcefully | (adverb) in a resourceful manner | - |
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resourcefulness | (noun) the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation | - |
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(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resource |
resourceless | (adjective) lacking or deficient in natural resources | - |
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source | (noun) a facility where something is available | - |
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(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, seed |
(noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | - |
(noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: reference |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage |
(noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: reservoir |
(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, generator |
(noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: informant |
(noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | - |
(verb) specify the origin of | - |
(verb) get (a product) from another country or business | - |
surcease | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: cessation |
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surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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(verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
(verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
(verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
(verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
(verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
surcoat | (noun) a tunic worn over a knight's armor | - |
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(noun) a loose outer coat usually of rich material | - |
trifurcate | (verb) divide into three | - |
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trifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into three branches | - |
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unchurch | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, excommunicate |
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urceolate | (adjective) urn-shaped; large below and contracted toward the mouth | - |
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urceole | (noun) a vessel that holds water for washing the hands | - |
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urchin | (noun) poor and often mischievous city child | - |
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