bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
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(verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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(verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
(verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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brink | (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: verge |
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(noun) the edge of a steep place | - |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: threshold, verge |
cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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(noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
(noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
(verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
(verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
(verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
clink | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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(noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
(verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
(verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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(noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
(verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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dink | (noun) a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net | Synonyms: drop shot |
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doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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(noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
(noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
(noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
(noun) any large deep body of water | - |
(verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
(verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
(verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
(verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
(verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
fink | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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(verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, squeal |
(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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(noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
(verb) fill with ink | - |
(verb) mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink | - |
(verb) append one's signature to | - |
interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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(verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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(noun) an eccentric idea | - |
(noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
(noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
(noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
(verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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(noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
(noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
(noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
(noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
(noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
(noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
(noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in |
(verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link up, tie |
(verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: yoke |
(verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite |
mink | (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
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(noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
(noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
oink | (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: grunt |
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(verb) utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs | Synonyms: squeal |
overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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pink | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pinkish |
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(noun) a light shade of red | - |
(noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pinko |
(noun) any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers | Synonyms: garden pink |
(verb) cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing | - |
(verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, rap, tap |
(verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, ping |
prink | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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(verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner | - |
rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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(verb) change one's mind | - |
rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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(verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
(verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
(verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
(verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
sink | (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | - |
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(noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump |
(noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole |
(noun) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | - |
(verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, slump |
(verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: bury |
(verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, settle |
(verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop, drop down |
(verb) cause to sink | - |
(verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: slide down, slump |
(verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: dip |
(verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: subside |
(verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, pass |
skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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(verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
(verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
think | (noun) an instance of deliberate thinking | - |
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(verb) bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation | - |
(verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, cogitate |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, consider |
(verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve |
(verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose |
(verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, mean |
(verb) be capable of conscious thought | - |
(verb) focus one's attention on a certain state | - |
(verb) decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting | - |
(verb) ponder; reflect on, or reason about | - |
(verb) have or formulate in the mind | - |
(verb) dispose the mind in a certain way | - |
(verb) imagine or visualize | - |
tink | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, clink, tinkle |
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uplink | (noun) a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission | - |
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wink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, winking |
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(noun) closing one eye quickly as a signal | - |
(noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling |
(verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, nictitate |
(verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink, blink away |
(verb) signal by winking | - |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, winkle |