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 |
apologue | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, fable, parable |
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brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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(noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
(verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalog |
(verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalog |
collogue | (verb) confer secretly | - |
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demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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(noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
(noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
(noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
duologue | (noun) a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors | - |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, dialogue |
eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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epilogue | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilog |
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(noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilog |
galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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ideologue | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologist |
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monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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(noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
(noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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prorogue | (verb) adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body | - |
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(verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
rogue | (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
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synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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vogue | (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, trend |
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(noun) a current state of general acceptance and use | - |