analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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(noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
analyzable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: decomposable |
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analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
anaphase | (noun) the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
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anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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(verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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(verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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(verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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(noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
(noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
(noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
(noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
anchorite | (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: hermit |
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ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
(noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
(adverb) at a moderately slow tempo | - |
andesite | (noun) a dark grey volcanic rock | - |
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andradite | (noun) a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone | - |
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androgyne | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, intersex |
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androsterone | (noun) an androgenic hormone that is less active than testosterone | - |
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ane | (adjective) used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | Synonyms: 1, i, one |
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anecdote | (noun) short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | - |
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anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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anemone | (noun) marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton | Synonyms: sea anemone |
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(noun) any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves | Synonyms: windflower |
anesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, put out, put under |
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anethole | (noun) an organic compound that is widely used as a flavoring substance. | Synonyms: anise camphor |
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angelique | (noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelica |
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anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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angioscope | (noun) a modified microscope used to study capillary vessels | - |
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angle | (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: slant |
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(noun) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians | - |
(verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
(verb) fish with a hook | - |
(verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
(verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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(verb) make or become angular | - |
anhydride | (noun) a compound formed from one or more other compounds in a reaction resulting in removal of water | - |
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anile | (adjective) of or like a feeble old woman | - |
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aniline | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
(adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
(verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
(verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
(verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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(noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
(noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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(noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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ankle | (noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus | Synonyms: ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint |
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anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
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ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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annexe | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, extension, wing |
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annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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(verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
announce | (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: denote |
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(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: declare |
(verb) give the names of | - |
annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
(noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
(noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
annulate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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anode | (noun) a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device | - |
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(noun) the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current | - |
anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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anodize | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodise |
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anodyne | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, analgetic |
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(noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, pain pill, painkiller |
anole | (noun) small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color | Synonyms: American chameleon, Anolis carolinensis |
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anomie | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomy |
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(noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomy |
anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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(noun) any mosquito of the genus Anopheles | - |
anorthite | (noun) rare plagioclastic feldspar occurring in many igneous rocks | - |
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anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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(adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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(adjective) capable of being answered | - |
(adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
antagonize | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonise |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, counteract |
ante | (noun) (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot | - |
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(verb) place one's stake | - |
antecede | (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
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antecedence | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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antedate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: foredate, predate |
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(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
antelope | (noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks | - |
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antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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(noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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anthologise | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologize |
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anthologize | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologise |
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anthophyllite | (noun) a dark brown mineral of the amphibole group; magnesium iron silicate | - |
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anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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(verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
(verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
(verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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(adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: counterclockwise |
anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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anticyclone | (noun) (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern | - |
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antidote | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: counterpoison |
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antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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antihistamine | (noun) a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site | - |
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antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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