abaft | (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: aft, astern |
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adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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(adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
(adverb) off course, wandering aimlessly | - |
(adverb) floating freely; not anchored | - |
aft | (adjective) (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail | - |
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(adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, astern |
aftershaft | (noun) a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds | - |
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aircraft | (noun) a vehicle that can fly | - |
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airlift | (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: lift |
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(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
allograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: homograft |
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aloft | (adverb) in the higher atmosphere above the earth | - |
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(adverb) at or to great height; high up in or into the air | - |
(adverb) at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship | - |
(adverb) upward | - |
antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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(noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom |
autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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bereft | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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(adjective) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love | Synonyms: lovelorn, unbeloved |
camshaft | (noun) an engine shaft with cams attached to it | - |
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candytuft | (noun) any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to Mediterranean region | - |
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chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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cleft | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: dissected |
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(adjective) split or divided | - |
(noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: crack, crevice, fissure, scissure |
(noun) a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin) | - |
cockloft | (noun) a small loft or garret | - |
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craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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(noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
(noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
(verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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croft | (noun) a small farm worked by a crofter | - |
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daft | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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deft | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: dexterous, dextrous |
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delft | (noun) a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration | - |
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downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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(noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
draft | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draught, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draught, gulp, swig |
(noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) a preliminary sketch of a design or picture | Synonyms: rough drawing |
(noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace | - |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) any of the various versions in the development of a written work | Synonyms: draft copy |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draught, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another | Synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment |
(verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: enlist, muster in |
(verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: outline |
(verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draught |
drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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(noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
(noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
(noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
(noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
(noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
(noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
(verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
(verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
(verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
(verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
(verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
(verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
(verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
(verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
(verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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eft | (noun) a newt in its terrestrial stage of development | - |
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engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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(verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
facelift | (noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, lift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
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(noun) a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes | Synonyms: face lift, face lifting |
festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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forklift | (noun) a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
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ft | (noun) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard | Synonyms: foot |
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gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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gift | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: giving |
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(noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, natural endowment, talent |
(noun) something acquired without compensation | - |
(verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: give, present |
(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, indue, invest |
graft | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: grafting |
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(noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: bribery |
(noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
(verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, ingraft |
(verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
haft | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: helve |
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handcraft | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handicraft, handiwork, handwork |
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(verb) make something by hand | - |
handicraft | (noun) a craft that requires skillful hands | - |
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(noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handiwork, handwork |
hayloft | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: haymow, mow |
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heft | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness |
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(verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave, heave up, heft up |
(verb) test the weight of something by lifting it | - |
heterograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: xenograft |
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homograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: allograft |
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housecraft | (noun) skill in domestic management | - |
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hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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ingraft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, graft |
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kraft | (noun) strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution | Synonyms: kraft paper |
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left | (adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to the political or intellectual left | - |
(adjective) intended for the left hand | Synonyms: left-hand |
(adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left over, leftover, odd, remaining, unexpended |
(noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east | - |
(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left field, leftfield |
(noun) the hand that is on the left side of the body | Synonyms: left hand |
(noun) those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare | Synonyms: left wing |
(noun) location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east | - |
(adverb) toward or on the left; also used figuratively | - |
lift | (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: heave, raise |
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(noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
(noun) the act of giving temporary assistance | - |
(noun) a ride in a car | - |
(noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: airlift |
(noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: elevator |
(noun) a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill | Synonyms: ski lift, ski tow |
(noun) one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot | - |
(noun) a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg | - |
(noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, raising |
(noun) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground | Synonyms: rise |
(noun) the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity | Synonyms: aerodynamic lift |
(verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
(verb) remove from a surface | - |
(verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
(verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
(verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
(verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
(verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
(verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
(verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
(verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
(verb) make audible | - |
(verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
(verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
(verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
(verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
(verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
(verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
(verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
(verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
loft | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: attic, garret |
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(noun) a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept | Synonyms: pigeon loft |
(noun) floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space | - |
(noun) (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air | - |
(verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
(verb) propel through the air | - |
(verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
(verb) store in a loft | - |
makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
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(noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
mineshaft | (noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine | - |
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needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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(noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
oft | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, often, oftentimes, ofttimes |
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overdraft | (noun) a draft in excess of the credit balance | - |
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priestcraft | (noun) the skills involved in the work of a priest | - |
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(noun) a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs | - |
raft | (noun) a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers | - |
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(noun) a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete | Synonyms: mat, raft foundation |
(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, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(verb) make into a raft | - |
(verb) travel by raft in water | - |
(verb) transport on a raft | - |
redraft | (noun) a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again | - |
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redshift | (noun) (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding | Synonyms: red shift |
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regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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rift | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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(noun) a narrow fissure in rock | - |
(noun) a gap between cloud masses | - |
semisoft | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: softish |
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shaft | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, quill |
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(noun) a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) | - |
(noun) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion | Synonyms: rotating shaft |
(noun) a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel | - |
(noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: scape |
(noun) a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) | - |
(noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, spear |
(noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: diaphysis |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, tool |
(noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shot, slam |
(noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft of light |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
(verb) equip with a shaft | - |
shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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(noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
(noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
(noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
(noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
(noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
(noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
(noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
(noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
(noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
(verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
(verb) move and exchange for another | - |
(verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
(verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
(verb) change in quality | - |
(verb) change gears | - |
(verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
(verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
(verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
(verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
(verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
(verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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sift | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sieve |
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(verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, strain |
(verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sieve |
(verb) move as if through a sieve | - |
snowdrift | (noun) a mass of snow heaped up by the wind | - |
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soft | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: sonant, voiced |
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(adjective) yielding readily to pressure or weight | - |
(adjective) compassionate and kind; conciliatory | - |
(adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh') | - |
(adjective) (of sound) relatively low in volume | - |
(adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffuse, diffused |
(adjective) not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
(adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: piano |
(adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: balmy, mild |
(adjective) willing to negotiate and compromise | - |
(adjective) not brilliant or glaring | Synonyms: subdued |
(adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, easygoing |
(adjective) (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value | - |
(adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: easy, gentle |
(adjective) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe | Synonyms: gentle |
(adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: indulgent, lenient |
(adjective) using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation | - |
(adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: delicate |
(adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flabby, flaccid |
(adverb) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship | Synonyms: easy |
spacecraft | (noun) a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun | Synonyms: ballistic capsule, space vehicle |
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spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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(noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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statecraft | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statesmanship |
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swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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(noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | - |
(noun) common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks | Synonyms: blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard |
theft | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, thievery, thieving |
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thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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(noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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tuft | (noun) a bunch of feathers or hair | - |
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(noun) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass | Synonyms: tussock |
updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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uplift | (noun) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts | - |
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(noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust |
(verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up |
(verb) lift up or elevate | - |
(verb) lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces | - |
waft | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, streamer |
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(verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
(verb) blow gently | - |
watercraft | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: vessel |
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(noun) skill in the management of boats | - |
weft | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, woof |
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weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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(verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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(noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
xenograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: heterograft |
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