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allot
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v 1: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign,
allot, portion]
2: allow to have; "grant a privilege" [syn: accord, allot,
grant]
3: administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer
critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money";
"shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to
someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" [syn:
distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out,
lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out,
allot, dole out]
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aught
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n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
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blot
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n 1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
[syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch,
slur]
2: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear,
smirch, spot, stain]
v 1: dry (ink) with blotting paper
2: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]
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clot
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n 1: a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
[syn: clot, coagulum]
v 1: change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state;
"coagulated blood" [syn: clot, coagulate]
2: cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
[syn: clot, coagulate]
3: turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber,
clot] [ant: homogenise, homogenize]
4: coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots" [syn: clog,
clot]
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cot
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n 1: a sheath worn to protect a finger [syn: fingerstall,
cot]
2: baby bed with high sides made of slats [syn: crib, cot]
3: a small bed that folds up for storage or transport [syn:
cot, camp bed]
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distraught
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adj 1: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with
grief" [syn: distraught, overwrought]
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dot
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n 1: a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines
between the dots" [syn: point, dot]
2: the United States federal department that institutes and
coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
[syn: Department of Transportation, Transportation,
DoT]
3: the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
[syn: dot, dit]
4: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
v 1: scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills
constellated with lights" [syn: dot, stud,
constellate]
2: distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
[syn: scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse]
3: make a dot or dots
4: mark with a dot; "dot your `i's"
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fraught
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adj 1: marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter
relationship"
2: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning";
"an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with
suspense" [syn: fraught(p), pregnant]
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naught
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n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
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not
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adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak
French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not
many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
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nought
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n 1: a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought,
cipher, cypher]
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overwrought
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adj 1: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with
grief" [syn: distraught, overwrought]
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plot
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n 1: a secret scheme to do something (especially something
underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit
the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the
start" [syn: plot, secret plan, game]
2: a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a
bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: plot,
plot of land, plot of ground, patch]
3: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the
characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
4: a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
v 1: plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the
overthrow of the government"
2: make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows
interactions among variables or how something is constructed
[syn: diagram, plot]
3: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: plat, plot]
4: devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play,
movie, or ballet); "the writer is plotting a new novel"
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snot
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n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob,
prig, snot, snoot]
2: nasal mucus
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sought
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adj 1: that is looked for; "the long sought relatives"
2: being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the
silver candelabrum" [syn: sought, sought-after(a)]
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taut
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adj 1: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead";
"a tight rope" [syn: taut, tight]
2: subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his
face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the
strings of a bow"
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thought
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n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking
about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered
my mind" [syn: idea, thought]
2: the process of using your mind to consider something
carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for
thought" [syn: thinking, thought, thought process,
cerebration, intellection, mentation]
3: the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual;
"19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought"
4: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or
certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your
persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn:
opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought]
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tot
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n 1: a small amount (especially of a drink); "a tot of rum"
2: a young child [syn: toddler, yearling, tot, bambino]
v 1: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally, add up]
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trot
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n 1: a slow pace of running [syn: jog, trot, lope]
2: radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be
established throughout the world by continuing revolution
[syn: Trotskyite, Trotskyist, Trot]
3: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language
(often used illicitly) [syn: pony, trot, crib]
4: a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike
the ground together
v 1: run at a moderately swift pace [syn: trot, jog, clip]
2: ride at a trot
3: cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
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watt
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n 1: a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power
dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a
resistance of 1 ohm [syn: watt, W]
2: Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the
steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
[syn: Watt, James Watt]
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wrought
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adj 1: shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a
pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip";
"the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet"
[syn: shaped, molded, wrought]
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yacht
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n 1: an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for
cruising or racing [syn: yacht, racing yacht]
v 1: travel in a yacht
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begot
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bought
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brought
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cannot
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caught
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fought
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ought
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taught
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walked
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claught
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