alias | (noun) a name that has been assumed | Synonyms: assumed name, false name |
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(adverb) as known or named at another time or place | Synonyms: a.k.a., also known as |
alibi | (noun) (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question | - |
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(noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: exculpation, excuse, self-justification |
(verb) exonerate by means of an alibi | - |
alidad | (noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles | Synonyms: alidade |
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(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments | Synonyms: alidade |
alidade | (noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles | Synonyms: alidad |
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(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments | Synonyms: alidad |
alien | (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: foreign |
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(adjective) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: exotic |
(noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander |
(noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: stranger, unknown |
(noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being |
(verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
alienable | (adjective) transferable to another owner | - |
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alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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(verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
(verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
alienated | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: estranged |
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(adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: anomic, disoriented |
alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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alienation | (noun) the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly | - |
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(noun) (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another | - |
(noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: disaffection, estrangement |
(noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: estrangement |
alienator | (noun) an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile | - |
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alienee | (noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: grantee |
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alienism | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienage |
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(noun) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness | - |
alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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alienor | (noun) someone from whom the title of property is transferred | - |
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aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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(verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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(verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
(verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
(verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
aligned | (adjective) brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause | - |
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(adjective) in a straight line | - |
aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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alignment | (noun) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | - |
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(noun) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | - |
(noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: conjunction |
(noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition |
alike | (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: like, similar |
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(adverb) equally | Synonyms: likewise |
(adverb) in a like manner | - |
alikeness | (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: likeness, similitude |
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aliment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
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(verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
alimental | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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alimentation | (noun) the act of supplying food and nourishment | Synonyms: feeding |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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alimony | (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: maintenance |
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aline | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, align, line up |
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alinement | (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alliance, coalition |
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aliphatic | (adjective) having carbon atoms linked in open chains | - |
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aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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aliquot | (adjective) signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity | - |
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(noun) an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquot part |
aliterate | (noun) a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources | Synonyms: aliterate person |
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alive | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: live |
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(adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: animated |
(adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: live |
(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, awake |
(adjective) in operation | Synonyms: active |
(adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit | - |
(adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of | - |
aliveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: animateness, liveness |
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(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: animation, life, living |
aliyah | (noun) (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel | - |
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(noun) (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah | - |
alizarin | (noun) an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing | Synonyms: alizarine |
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alizarine | (noun) an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing | Synonyms: alizarin |
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