| job | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: chore, task |
| (noun) a crime (especially a robbery) | Synonyms: caper |
| (noun) a damaging piece of work | - |
| (noun) the responsibility to do something | - |
| (noun) the performance of a piece of work | - |
| (noun) a workplace; as in the expression `on the job' | - |
| (noun) an object worked on; a result produced by working | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | - |
| (noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | Synonyms: problem |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: speculate |
| (verb) work occasionally | - |
| (verb) profit privately from public office and official business | - |
| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, subcontract |
| jobber | (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: middleman, wholesaler |
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| jobbery | (noun) corruptness among public officials | - |
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| jobcentre | (noun) a government office in a town where information about available jobs is displayed and where unemployment benefits are administered | - |
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| jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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| jobless | (adjective) not having a job | Synonyms: idle, out of work |
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| jock | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor |
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| (noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: athlete |
| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| jockstrap | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, supporter, suspensor |
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| jocose | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocular, joking |
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| jocosely | (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocular |
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| jocoseness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocosity, merriness |
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| jocosity | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, merriness |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocularity |
| jocote | (noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit | Synonyms: mombin, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea |
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| jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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| (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocosely |
| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| jocund | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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| jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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| jodhpurs | (noun) (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | Synonyms: jodhpur breeches, riding breeches |
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| joewood | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis |
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| jog | (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: lope, trot |
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| (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: nudge |
| (noun) a sharp change in direction | - |
| (verb) stimulate to remember | - |
| (verb) give a slight push to | - |
| (verb) run for exercise | - |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, trot |
| (verb) even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing | Synonyms: even up, square up |
| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: ramble, ramble on |
| jogger | (noun) someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise) | - |
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| jogging | (noun) running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise | - |
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| joggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: jiggle |
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| (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel, dowel pin |
| (verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
| john | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: trick, whoremaster, whoremonger |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| join | (noun) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | Synonyms: sum, union |
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| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, joint, junction, juncture |
| (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: conjoin |
| (verb) cause to become joined or linked | - |
| (verb) become part of; become a member of a group or organization | Synonyms: fall in, get together |
| (verb) come into the company of | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, link, link up, unite |
| joined | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: coupled, linked |
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| (adjective) of or relating to two people who are married to each other | Synonyms: united |
| joiner | (noun) a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood | - |
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| (noun) a person who likes to join groups | - |
| joinery | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: cabinetmaking |
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| (noun) fine woodwork done by a joiner | - |
| joining | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| joint | (adjective) united or combined | - |
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| (adjective) involving both houses of a legislature | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involving two or more | - |
| (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick |
| (noun) junction by which parts or objects are joined together | - |
| (noun) a disreputable place of entertainment | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, articulation |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, junction, juncture |
| (verb) fasten with a joint | - |
| (verb) separate (meat) at the joint | - |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: articulate |
| (verb) fit as if by joints | - |
| jointed | (adjective) having joints or jointed segments | - |
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| jointer | (noun) a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together | Synonyms: jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane |
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| jointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, conjointly, together with |
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| (adverb) in collaboration or cooperation | - |
| jointure | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, unification, union, uniting |
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| (noun) (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | Synonyms: legal jointure |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| joist | (noun) beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
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| joke | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, prank, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, jocularity |
| (noun) a triviality not to be taken seriously | - |
| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, laugh |
| (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| joker | (noun) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester | - |
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| (noun) an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent | - |
| (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: jokester |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: turkey |
| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| jokingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jestingly |
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| (adverb) not seriously | Synonyms: facetiously, tongue-in-cheek |
| jollification | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, merrymaking |
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| jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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| jolliness | (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jollity, joviality |
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| jollity | (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, joviality |
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| jolly | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| (noun) a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work | Synonyms: jolly boat |
| (noun) a happy party | - |
| (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
| (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, josh, kid |
| jolt | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jounce, shock |
| (verb) disturb (someone's) composure | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jar |
| jolted | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: shaken |
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| (adjective) bumped or shaken jerkily | - |
| jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jolty | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jonah | (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jinx |
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| jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| jonquil | (noun) widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers | Synonyms: Narcissus jonquilla |
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| (noun) often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil | - |
| jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
| jorum | (noun) a large drinking bowl | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a jorum will hold. | - |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| joss | (noun) a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol | - |
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| jostle | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostling |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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| jot | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jotting |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (verb) write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of | Synonyms: jot down |
| jotter | (noun) a small notebook for rough notes | - |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| joule | (noun) a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second | Synonyms: J, watt second |
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| jounce | (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, shock |
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| (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: bounce |
| journal | (noun) the part of the axle contained by a bearing | - |
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| (noun) a record book as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a periodical dedicated to a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: diary |
| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: daybook |
| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| journalism | (noun) the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media | - |
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| (noun) newspapers and magazines collectively | Synonyms: news media |
| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| journalistically | (adverb) by journalists | - |
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| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
| journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| joust | (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: tilt |
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| (verb) joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | - |
| jovial | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful |
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| joviality | (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: conviviality |
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| (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, jollity |
| jovially | (adverb) in a jovial manner | - |
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| jowl | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| (noun) a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging) | - |
| jowly | (adjective) having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw | Synonyms: double-chinned, loose-jowled |
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| joy | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, pleasure |
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| (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joyfulness, joyousness |
| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: rejoice |
| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: gladden |
| joyful | (adjective) full of or producing joy | - |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, jubilant |
| joyfully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: gleefully, joyously |
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| joyfulness | (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joy, joyousness |
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| joyless | (adjective) not experiencing or inspiring joy | - |
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| joylessly | (adverb) in a joyless manner; without joy | - |
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| joylessness | (noun) a feeling of dismal cheerlessness | - |
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| joyous | (adjective) full of or characterized by joy | - |
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| joyously | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: gleefully, joyfully |
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| joyousness | (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joy, joyfulness |
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| joyride | (noun) a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure | - |
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| (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |