abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
---|
(adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
(adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
---|
broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
---|
(adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
(adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
(adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
(adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
(adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
(adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
(noun) slang term for a woman | - |
busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
---|
byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
---|
carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
---|
(noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
---|
cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
---|
crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
---|
download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
---|
freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
---|
goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
---|
(noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
(verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: needle |
(verb) urge with or as if with a goad | - |
(verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: prick |
(verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: spur |
highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
---|
inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
---|
(noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
load | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, loading |
---|
(noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: payload, warhead |
(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment |
(noun) electrical device to which electrical power is delivered | - |
(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus |
(noun) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks | Synonyms: lode |
(noun) the power output of a generator or power plant | - |
(noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: loading |
(noun) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate | - |
(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch |
(verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
(verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
(verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
(verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
---|
(verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
ogdoad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, VIII |
---|
overload | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overburden |
---|
(noun) an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power | - |
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: clog |
(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge |
(verb) become overloaded | - |
payload | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, shipment |
---|
(noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, warhead |
railroad | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
---|
(noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad track, railway |
(verb) transport by railroad | - |
(verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
(verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
reload | (verb) place a new load on | - |
---|
(verb) load anew | Synonyms: recharge |
road | (noun) a way or means to achieve something | - |
---|
(noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: route |
shipload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, carload |
---|
superload | (noun) a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic | Synonyms: live load |
---|
toad | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad frog |
---|
trainload | (noun) quantity that can be carried by a train | - |
---|
unload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unlade |
---|
(verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down |
upload | (verb) transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location | - |
---|
woad | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Isatis | - |
---|
(noun) a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant | - |
workload | (noun) work that a person is expected to do in a specified time | Synonyms: work load |
---|