| leeway | (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, margin, tolerance |
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| (noun) (of a ship or plane) sideways drift | - |
| mainstay | (noun) the forestay that braces the mainmast | - |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: pillar |
| margay | (noun) small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil | Synonyms: Felis wiedi, margay cat |
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| may | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, whitethorn |
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| midday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon |
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| midway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, middle |
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| (noun) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: halfway |
| mislay | (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: misplace |
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| misplay | (noun) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed | Synonyms: error |
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| (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
| (verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
| moray | (noun) family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked | Synonyms: moray eel |
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| motorway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| mulloway | (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: jewfish, Sciaena antarctica |
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| nay | (noun) used to express negation | - |
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| (adverb) not this merely but also; not only so but | - |
| noonday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, midday, noon, noontide, twelve noon |
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| nosegay | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, posy |
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| okay | (adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, cool, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok |
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| (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okeh, okey |
| (adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, alright, O.K. |
| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., sanction |
| outlay | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement, spending |
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| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: expenditure, outgo, spending |
| outplay | (verb) excel or defeat in a game | - |
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| outstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: overstay |
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| (verb) surpass in staying power | - |
| overlay | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlayer, sheathing |
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| (noun) a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface | - |
| (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) kill by lying on | Synonyms: overlie |
| overpay | (verb) pay too much | - |
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| overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
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| overstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: outstay |
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| parkway | (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: drive |
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| parlay | (noun) a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers | - |
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| (verb) stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager | Synonyms: double up |
| passageway | (noun) a passage between rooms or between buildings | - |
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| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passage |
| pathway | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: footpath |
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| (noun) a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain | Synonyms: nerve pathway, nerve tract, tract |
| pay | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, give |
| (verb) bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action | - |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) give money, usually in exchange for goods or services | - |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, yield |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: compensate, make up, pay off |
| (verb) cancel or discharge a debt | Synonyms: ante up, pay up |
| (verb) make a compensation for | - |
| (verb) discharge or settle | - |
| (verb) render | - |
| (verb) be worth it | - |
| payday | (noun) the day on which you receive pay for your work | - |
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| pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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| play | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, romp |
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| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, gaming |
| (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a preset plan of action in team sports | - |
| (noun) activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules | Synonyms: child's play |
| (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: swordplay |
| (noun) utilization or exercise | - |
| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: looseness |
| (noun) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | Synonyms: drama, dramatic play |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, sport |
| (noun) a theatrical performance of a drama | - |
| (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: shimmer |
| (noun) a state in which action is feasible | - |
| (noun) the removal of constraints | Synonyms: free rein |
| (noun) (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds | Synonyms: period of play, playing period |
| (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
| (verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
| (verb) participate in games or sport | - |
| (verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
| (verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
| (verb) make bets | - |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
| (verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
| (verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
| (verb) use or move | - |
| (verb) use to one's advantage | - |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
| (verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
| (verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
| (verb) perform on a certain location | - |
| (verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) emit recorded sound | - |
| (verb) play on an instrument | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
| (verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
| (verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
| (verb) behave in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
| (verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
| (verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
| playday | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playtime |
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| popinjay | (noun) an archaic term for a parrot | - |
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| (noun) a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) | - |
| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| pray | (verb) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer | - |
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| (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, implore |
| prepay | (verb) pay for something before receiving it | - |
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| quay | (noun) wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline | - |
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| raceway | (noun) a canal for a current of water | Synonyms: race |
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| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, track |
| radioimmunoassay | (noun) immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled | - |
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| railway | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad, railroad track |
| ray | (noun) cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish | - |
| (noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: re |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: beam, electron beam |
| (noun) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point | - |
| (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: irradiate |
| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: radiate |
| (verb) emit as rays | - |
| relay | (noun) the act of passing something along from one person or group to another | - |
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| (noun) electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit | Synonyms: electrical relay |
| (noun) a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance | Synonyms: relay race |
| (noun) a crew of workers who relieve another crew | - |
| (noun) a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals | - |
| (verb) pass along | - |
| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| repay | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, retort, return, riposte |
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| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, return |
| (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: requite |
| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, reward |
| replay | (noun) the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape | Synonyms: action replay, instant replay |
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| (noun) something (especially a game) that is played again | Synonyms: rematch |
| (verb) play again | - |
| (verb) repeat a game against the same opponent | - |
| (verb) play (a melody) again | - |
| (verb) reproduce (a recording) on a recorder | Synonyms: play back |
| ringway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ring road |
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| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| ropeway | (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tram, tramway |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| roundelay | (noun) a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain | - |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |
| sashay | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: chasse |
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| (noun) a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps | - |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |
| say | (noun) the chance to speak | - |
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| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: state, tell |
| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, aver |
| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out |
| (verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: suppose |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell |
| (verb) communicate or express nonverbally | - |
| (verb) recite or repeat a fixed text | - |
| (verb) indicate | - |
| (verb) state as one's opinion or judgement; declare | - |
| (verb) utter aloud | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: read |
| screenplay | (noun) a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets | - |
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| seaway | (noun) a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels | Synonyms: sea lane, ship route, trade route |
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| shay | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: chaise |
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| shipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: slipway, ways |
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| (noun) a canal large enough for seagoing vessels | Synonyms: ship canal |
| sickbay | (noun) (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) | Synonyms: sick berth |
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| sideway | (adverb) from the side; obliquely | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
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| (adverb) with one side forward or to the front | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
| (adverb) in a lateral direction | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| slay | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove |
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| (verb) to succeed greatly | - |
| slideway | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slide, sloping trough |
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| slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| someday | (adverb) some unspecified time in the future | - |
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| someway | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | Synonyms: somehow, someways |
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| spay | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, neuter |
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| speedway | (noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
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| (noun) road where high speed driving is allowed | - |
| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| splay | (adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner | - |
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| (noun) an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger | - |
| (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) spread open or apart | - |
| spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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| (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
| (noun) a jet of vapor | - |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
| (noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
| (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
| (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| stairway | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: staircase |
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| stay | (noun) continuing or remaining in a place or state | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar | - |
| (noun) a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) | - |
| (noun) a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted | - |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, rest |
| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, detain |
| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, quell |
| (verb) fasten with stays | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) stop a judicial process | - |
| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, bide |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, remain, stay on |
| (verb) hang on during a trial of endurance | Synonyms: last out, outride, ride out |
| steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stowaway | (noun) a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off |
| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
| (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| sunray | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunbeam |
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| (noun) a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | Synonyms: sun-ray |
| (noun) herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona | Synonyms: Enceliopsis nudicaulis |
| superhighway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, throughway, thruway |
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| (noun) an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form | Synonyms: information superhighway |
| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
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| takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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| (noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
| tatouay | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus |
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| taxiway | (noun) a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport | Synonyms: taxi strip |
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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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| tideway | (noun) a channel in which a tidal current runs | - |
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| today | (noun) the present time or age | - |
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| (noun) the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow) | - |
| (adverb) on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow | - |
| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, nowadays |
| tramway | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram |
| tray | (noun) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | - |
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| underlay | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment |
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| (verb) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing | - |
| (verb) put (something) under or beneath | - |
| (verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | - |
| underpay | (verb) pay too little | - |
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| underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
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| (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |
| underway | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: afoot |
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| unsay | (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, withdraw |
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