amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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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 | - |
arbitrage | (noun) a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price | - |
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(verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
(adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
(noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
(noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
(noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
(verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
(verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
(verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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(noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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(noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
(noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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(noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
courage | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courageousness |
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coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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(noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
(noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
demurrage | (noun) detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
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(noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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(verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
(verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |
disparage | (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: belittle, pick at |
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effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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encourage | (verb) spur on | - |
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(verb) inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | - |
(verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, further, promote |
enrage | (verb) put into a rage; make violently angry | - |
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entourage | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, retinue, suite |
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forage | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: foraging |
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(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
(verb) wander and feed | - |
(verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
fosterage | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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(noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fostering |
garage | (noun) an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles | - |
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(noun) a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired | Synonyms: service department |
(verb) keep or store in a garage | - |
harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
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leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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(noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
(noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
(verb) provide with leverage | - |
(verb) supplement with leverage | - |
lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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(noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
mirage | (noun) something illusory and unattainable | - |
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(noun) an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects | - |
moorage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up |
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(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip |
(noun) a fee for mooring | - |
outrage | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: scandalisation, scandalization |
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(noun) a wantonly cruel act | - |
(noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: scandal |
(noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: indignation |
(verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate |
(verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate |
overage | (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overaged, superannuated |
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(noun) a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations | - |
pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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(noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
peerage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: baronage |
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pilferage | (noun) the act of stealing small amounts or small articles | - |
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plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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porterage | (noun) the transportation of burdens by porters | - |
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(noun) the charge for carrying burdens by porters | - |
rage | (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, furore |
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(noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: fury, madness |
(noun) a state of extreme anger | - |
(noun) violent state of the elements | - |
(noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: passion |
(verb) feel intense anger | - |
(verb) be violent; as of fires and storms | - |
(verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: ramp, storm |
saxifrage | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, rockfoil |
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seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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sewerage | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewer |
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(noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewage |
steerage | (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steering |
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(noun) the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship | - |
storage | (noun) the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials | - |
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(noun) the act of storing something | - |
(noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, warehousing |
(noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, store, storehouse |
(noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, store |
(noun) (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk | - |
suffrage | (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, vote |
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telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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telpherage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telferage |
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umbrage | (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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umpirage | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, refereeing |
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(noun) mediation by an umpire | - |
underage | (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: minor, nonaged |
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(adjective) dependent by virtue of youth | - |
vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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