Words that rhyme with sault

n 1: angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) [syn: elevation, EL, altitude, ALT]

n 1: close fighting during the culmination of a military attack 2: a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped 3: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946 4: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment] v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 2: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage] 3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]

n 1: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene

n 1: a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" [syn: boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man] 2: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]

n 1: a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head" 2: an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle" [syn: blow, bump] 3: an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating [syn: reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye] 4: an unpleasant or disappointing surprise; "it came as a shock to learn that he was injured" [syn: shock, blow] 5: a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust" [syn: gust, blast, blow] 6: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C] 7: forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" [syn: blow, puff] v 1: exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down" 2: be blowing or storming; "The wind blew from the West" 3: free of obstruction by blowing air through; "blow one's nose" 4: be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore" [syn: float, drift, be adrift, blow] 5: make a sound as if blown; "The whistle blew" 6: shape by blowing; "Blow a glass vase" 7: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up] 8: spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" [syn: waste, blow, squander] [ant: conserve, economise, economize, husband] 9: spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater" 10: sound by having air expelled through a tube; "The trumpets blew" 11: play or sound a wind instrument; "She blew the horn" 12: provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation [syn: fellate, suck, blow, go down on] 13: cause air to go in, on, or through; "Blow my hair dry" 14: cause to move by means of an air current; "The wind blew the leaves around in the yard" 15: spout moist air from the blowhole; "The whales blew" 16: leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!" [syn: shove off, shove along, blow] 17: lay eggs; "certain insects are said to blow" 18: cause to be revealed and jeopardized; "The story blew their cover"; "The double agent was blown by the other side" 19: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade] 20: allow to regain its breath; "blow a horse" 21: melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew" [syn: blow out, burn out, blow] 22: burst suddenly; "The tire blew"; "We blew a tire"

adj 1: of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue, bluish, blueish] 2: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line" 3: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited] 4: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blasphemous, blue, profane] 5: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy] 6: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician] 7: morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a), puritanic, puritanical] 8: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary] n 1: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" [syn: blue, blueness] 2: blue clothing; "she was wearing blue" 3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue" 4: the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" [syn: blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder] 5: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge [syn: bluing, blueing, blue] 6: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal] 7: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae v 1: turn blue

n 1: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] v 1: show displeasure, as after a performance or speech [syn: boo, hiss] [ant: acclaim, applaud, clap, spat]

n 1: a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces [syn: bow, bowknot] 2: a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments 3: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 4: a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow 5: something curved in shape [syn: bow, arc] 6: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting [syn: bow, bowing, obeisance] 7: an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience [syn: bow, curtain call] 8: a decorative interlacing of ribbons 9: a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments v 1: bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; "He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame" [syn: bow, bow down] 2: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer, accede, give in] 3: bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting; "He bowed before the King" 4: bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: crouch, stoop, bend, bow] 5: play on a string instrument with a bow

n 1: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling [syn: brew, brewage] v 1: prepare by brewing; "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years" 2: sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing"

n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]

n 1: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad] 2: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow [syn: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction] v 1: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw]

n 1: a slight indication [syn: hint, clue] 2: evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew, cue] v 1: roll into a ball [syn: clue, clew]

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter [syn: centimeter, centimetre, cm] 2: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei [syn: curium, Cm, atomic number 96]

n 1: a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition [syn: cobalt, Co, atomic number 27]

n 1: the sound made by a pigeon v 1: speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was cooing softly" 2: cry softly, as of pigeons

n 1: a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force [syn: coup d'etat, coup, putsch, takeover] 2: a brilliant and notable success

n 1: the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) 2: an organized group of workmen [syn: gang, crew, work party] 3: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch] 4: the team of men manning a racing shell v 1: serve as a crew member on

n 1: black birds having a raucous call 2: the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it) 3: a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana 4: a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo [syn: Corvus, Crow] 5: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade] 6: a Siouan language spoken by the Crow v 1: dwell on with satisfaction [syn: gloat, triumph, crow] 2: express pleasure verbally; "She crowed with joy" 3: utter shrill sounds; "The cocks crowed all morning"

n 1: an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech 2: evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew, cue] 3: a stimulus that provides information about what to do [syn: discriminative stimulus, cue] 4: sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards [syn: cue, cue stick, pool cue, pool stick] v 1: assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned [syn: prompt, remind, cue]

n 1: loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default" 2: act of failing to meet a financial obligation [syn: default, nonpayment, nonremittal] 3: loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid [syn: nonpayment, default, nonremittal] [ant: payment] 4: an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified [syn: default option, default] v 1: fail to pay up [syn: default, default on] [ant: ante up, pay, pay up]

n 1: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet with dew"

n 1: an uproarious party [syn: bash, do, brawl] 2: the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: do, doh, ut] 3: doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy, DO] v 1: engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make, do] 2: carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn: perform, execute, do] 3: get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: do, perform] 4: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along] 5: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" [syn: cause, do, make] 6: carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise, do] 7: be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" [syn: suffice, do, answer, serve] 8: create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" [syn: do, make] [ant: undo, unmake] 9: behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" [syn: act, behave, do] 10: spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He did six years for embezzlement" [syn: serve, do] 11: carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" [syn: do, manage] 12: arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn: dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure] 13: travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"

n 1: the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 [syn: Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE] 2: mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'

n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

n 1: United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862) [syn: Drew, John Drew]

adv 1: directly or exactly; straight; "went due North" adj 1: owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is due" [ant: undue] 2: scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes" 3: suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion"; "in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care" [ant: undue] 4: capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him" [syn: ascribable, due, imputable, referable] n 1: that which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due" 2: a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership); "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"

n 1: a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana 2: a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin 3: female sheep

v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim] 2: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify] 3: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 4: raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"

n 1: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: mistake, error, fault] 2: an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault, flaw] 3: the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did" [syn: demerit, fault] [ant: merit, virtue] 4: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break] 5: (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it" 6: responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault" 7: (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults" v 1: put or pin the blame on [syn: blame, fault] [ant: absolve, free, justify]

adj 1: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" [syn: fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated]

adj 1: a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle" [ant: many] n 1: a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"

n 1: a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea [syn: ice floe, floe]

n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn: flow, flowing] 2: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time [syn: flow, flow rate, rate of flow] 3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression [syn: flow, stream] 4: any uninterrupted stream or discharge 5: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors" [syn: stream, flow] 6: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow, current] 7: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"-- Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow] v 1: move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" [syn: flow, flux] 2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course] 3: cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper" 4: be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding" 5: fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: hang, fall, flow] 6: cover or swamp with water 7: undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11" [syn: menstruate, flow]

n 1: an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease [syn: influenza, flu, grippe]

n 1: flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor [syn: fluke, flue] 2: organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip [syn: flue pipe, flue, labial pipe] 3: a conduit to carry off smoke

n 1: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 2: a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" [syn: foe, enemy] [ant: ally, friend]

n 1: the system of numbering pages [syn: pagination, folio, page number, paging] 2: a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) [syn: leaf, folio] 3: a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages; "the first folio of Shakespeare's plays"

n 1: an alert and refreshed state [syn: freshness, glow] 2: light from nonthermal sources [syn: luminescence, glow] 3: the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised [syn: incandescence, glow] 4: a feeling of considerable warmth; "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret" 5: a steady even light without flames 6: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow, glowing] 7: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency] v 1: emit a steady even light without flames; "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden" 2: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 3: shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" [syn: burn, glow] 4: be exuberant or high-spirited; "Make the people's hearts glow" 5: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine]

n 1: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage] v 1: join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign on the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" [syn: glue, paste] 2: be fixed as if by glue; "His eyes were glued on her"

n 1: large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail [syn: gnu, wildebeest]

adj 1: functioning correctly and ready for action; "all systems are go" [ant: no-go] n 1: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go, spell, tour, turn] 2: street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine [syn: Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug] 3: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer] 4: a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters [syn: go, go game] v 1: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" [syn: travel, go, move, locomote] [ant: stay in place] 2: follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" [syn: go, proceed, move] 3: move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" [syn: go, go away, depart] [ant: come, come up] 4: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get] 5: be awarded; be allotted; "The first prize goes to Mary"; "Her money went on clothes" 6: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: run, go] 7: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend] 8: follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" [syn: proceed, go] 9: be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" 10: be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children went hungry that day" 11: make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" [syn: sound, go] 12: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction] 13: to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest" [syn: run low, run short, go] 14: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" [syn: move, go, run] 15: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out] 16: pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action; "How is it going?"; "The day went well until I got your call" 17: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born] 18: be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?"; "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" [syn: belong, go] 19: be ranked or compare; "This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go" 20: begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" [syn: start, go, get going] [ant: halt, stop] 21: have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?" [syn: move, go] 22: be contained in; "How many times does 18 go into 54?" 23: be sounded, played, or expressed; "How does this song go again?" 24: blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs" [syn: blend, go, blend in] 25: lead, extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" [syn: go, lead] 26: be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won't fit into the puzzle" [syn: fit, go] 27: go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?" [syn: rifle, go] 28: be spent; "All my money went for food and rent" 29: give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" [syn: plump, go] 30: stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down]

v 1: pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" [syn: turn, grow] 2: become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast" 3: increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"; "her hair doesn't grow much anymore" 4: cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables in his backyard" 5: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate, grow] 6: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow] 7: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm, produce] 8: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" [syn: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire] 9: grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior" [syn: develop, grow] 10: become attached by or as if by the process of growth; "The tree trunks had grown together"

adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game] n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage] 2: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt] 3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: freeze, halt] v 1: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" [syn: halt, hold, arrest] 2: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt] [ant: get going, go, start] 3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh] 4: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]

v 1: make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock" [syn: hew, hew out] 2: strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"

n 1: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength [syn: hue, chromaticity] v 1: take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey" 2: suffuse with color [syn: imbue, hue]

n 1: an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: imbroglio, embroilment] 2: a very embarrassing misunderstanding

adv 1: to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door" [syn: in, inwards, inward] adj 1: holding office; "the in party" 2: directed or bound inward; "took the in bus"; "the in basket" 3: currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in" n 1: a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot [syn: inch, in] 2: a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite [syn: indium, In, atomic number 49] 3: a state in midwestern United States [syn: Indiana, Hoosier State, IN]

n 1: a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print [syn: intaglio printing, intaglio, gravure] 2: glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) [syn: intaglio, diaglyph]

n 1: the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people; "he is always in the know" v 1: be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" [syn: know, cognize, cognise] [ant: ignore] 2: know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" 3: be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" 4: be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" 5: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [syn: know, experience, live] 6: accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know] 7: have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?" 8: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk] 9: know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off" 10: be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong" 11: perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"

n 1: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu]

n 1: a toilet in Britain [syn: water closet, closet, W.C., loo]

adv 1: in a low position; near the ground; "the branches hung low" adj 1: less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low" [ant: high] 2: literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" [ant: high] 3: very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf" [syn: low, low-toned] 4: unrefined in character; "low comedy" 5: used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency [syn: low, low-pitched] [ant: high, high-pitched] 6: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy] 7: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small] 8: no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted" [syn: depleted, low] 9: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low] 10: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited] n 1: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: low, depression] 2: British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963) [syn: Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low] 3: a low level or position or degree; "the stock market fell to a new low" [ant: high] 4: the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving [syn: first gear, first, low gear, low] v 1: make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: moo, low]

n 1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: malted, malt, malted milk] 2: a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: malt, malt liquor] 3: a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling v 1: treat with malt or malt extract; "malt beer" 2: turn into malt, become malt 3: convert grain into malt 4: convert into malt

n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul] 2: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America [syn: mew, mew gull, sea mew, Larus canus] v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew] 2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls

n 1: a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm [syn: mho, siemens, reciprocal ohm, S]

n 1: the sound made by a cow or bull v 1: make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: moo, low]

n 1: a clever remark [syn: bon mot, mot] 2: a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes [syn: MOT, MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test]

n 1: a loft in a barn where hay is stored [syn: hayloft, haymow, mow] v 1: cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass" [syn: mow, cut down] 2: make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mop, mow]

adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh, new] adj 1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: old] 2: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: fresh, new, novel] 3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new] 4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity" [syn: new, unexampled] 5: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" 6: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant: worn] 7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them" [syn: newfangled, new] 8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties" 9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: Modern, New] 10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: new, young] 11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"

adv 1: referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present; "he was no heavier than a child" [syn: no, no more] 2: not in any degree or manner; not at all; "he is no better today" 3: used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc or especially to emphasize a negative statement; "no, you are wrong" adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of; "we have no bananas"; "no eggs left and no money to buy any"; "have you no decency?"; "did it with no help"; "I'll get you there in no time" [ant: all(a), some(a)] n 1: a negative; "his no was loud and clear" [ant: yes] 2: a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known [syn: nobelium, No, atomic number 102]

n 1: a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region [syn: Ohio, Buckeye State, OH]

v 1: express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'; "They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents" [syn: ooh, aah]

v 1: be obliged to pay or repay 2: be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory" 3: be in debt; "She owes me $200"; "I still owe for the car"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser"

n 1: long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation [syn: pew, church bench]

n 1: an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord [syn: poliomyelitis, polio, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis]

n 1: a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather; "he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio" 2: a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers; "the artist had put together a portfolio of his work"; "every actor has a portfolio of photographs" 3: a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution; "they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio" 4: the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"

adv 1: in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc. [ant: con] adj 1: in favor of (an action or proposal etc.); "a pro vote" [ant: anti] n 1: an athlete who plays for pay [syn: professional, pro] [ant: amateur] 2: an argument in favor of a proposal [ant: con]

n 1: a fine point of etiquette or petty formality 2: strict observance of formalities

n 1: a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn: queue, waiting line] 2: (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted 3: a braid of hair at the back of the head v 1: form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store" [syn: line up, queue up, queue]

n 1: fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture [syn: roe, hard roe] 2: eggs of female fish 3: the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster 4: the eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish

n 1: an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; "a row of chairs" 2: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup] 3: a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches" 4: (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: course, row] 5: a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side 6: a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row" 7: the act of rowing as a sport [syn: rowing, row] v 1: propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"

n 1: European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy [syn: rue, herb of grace, Ruta graveolens] 2: leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy 3: sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" [syn: sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness] 4: (French) a street or road in France v 1: feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about [syn: repent, regret, rue]

adj 1: (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" n 1: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) 2: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food [syn: salt, table salt, common salt] 3: negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons [syn: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT] 4: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth [syn: salt, saltiness, salinity] v 1: add salt to 2: sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" 3: add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes" 4: preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"

n 1: someone who guards prisoners [syn: prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey] 2: a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole 3: a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air [syn: screw, screw propeller] 4: a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head 5: slang for sexual intercourse [syn: fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup] v 1: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk] 2: turn like a screw 3: cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; "drive in screws or bolts" [syn: screw, drive in] 4: tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions; "Screw the bottle cap on" [ant: unscrew] 5: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]

n 1: living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household [syn: harem, hareem, seraglio, serail]

v 1: fasten by sewing; do needlework [syn: sew, run up, sew together, stitch] 2: create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [syn: sew, tailor, tailor-make]

n 1: footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material 2: (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time 3: U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn: horseshoe, shoe] 4: a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation [syn: brake shoe, shoe, skid] v 1: furnish with shoes; "the children were well shoed"

v 1: drive away by crying `shoo!' [syn: shoo off, shoo, shoo away]

n 1: the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining; "a remarkable show of skill" 2: something intended to communicate a particular impression; "made a display of strength"; "a show of impatience"; "a good show of looking interested" [syn: display, show] 3: a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway" 4: pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression; "they try to keep up appearances"; "that ceremony is just for show" [syn: appearance, show] v 1: give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington" [syn: show, demo, exhibit, present, demonstrate] 2: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" [syn: prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew] [ant: confute, disprove] 3: provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" [syn: testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show] 4: make visible or noticeable; "She showed her talent for cooking"; "Show me your etchings, please" [ant: conceal, hide] 5: show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" [syn: picture, depict, render, show] 6: give expression to; "She showed her disappointment" [syn: express, show, evince] 7: indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" [syn: indicate, point, designate, show] 8: be or become visible or noticeable; "His good upbringing really shows"; "The dirty side will show" [syn: show, show up] 9: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show, record] 10: give evidence of, as of records; "The diary shows his distress that evening" 11: take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; "The usher showed us to our seats" [syn: usher, show] 12: finish third or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to show"

n 1: a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman [syn: shrew, termagant] 2: small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles [syn: shrew, shrewmouse]

adj 1: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" [syn: skew, skewed] v 1: turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed" [ant: adjust, align, aline, line up]

n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad] v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut] 2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: skid, slip, slue, slew, slide]

n 1: wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh [syn: Allegheny plum, Alleghany plum, sloe, Prunus alleghaniensis] 2: a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa] 3: small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush

adv 1: without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights" [syn: slowly, slow, easy, tardily] [ant: apace, chop-chop, quickly, rapidly, speedily] 2: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: behind, slow] adj 1: not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth" [ant: fast] 2: at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" [ant: fast] 3: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 4: (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" [ant: fast] 5: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] 6: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish] v 1: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up] 2: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken] 3: cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up]

v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut] 2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: skid, slip, slue, slew, slide]

n 1: precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals [syn: snow, snowfall] 2: a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground 3: English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) [syn: Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester] 4: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C] v 1: fall as snow; "It was snowing all night" 2: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well" [syn: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false]

adv 1: to a very great extent or degree; "the idea is so obvious"; "never been so happy"; "I love you so"; "my head aches so!" 2: in a manner that facilitates; "he observed the snakes so he could describe their behavior"; "he stooped down so he could pick up his hat" 3: in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied; "They're happy and I hope they will remain so"; "so live your life that old age will bring no regrets" 4: to a certain unspecified extent or degree; "I can only go so far with this student"; "can do only so much in a day" 5: in the same way; also; "I was offended and so was he"; "worked hard and so did she" 6: in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) [syn: thus, thusly, so] 7: (usually followed by `that') to an extent or degree as expressed; "he was so tired he could hardly stand"; "so dirty that it smells" 8: subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right"; "first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to bed" [syn: then, so, and so, and then] 9: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus, so] 10: in truth (often tends to intensify); "they said the car would break down and indeed it did"; "it is very cold indeed"; "was indeed grateful"; "indeed, the rain may still come"; "he did so do it!" [syn: indeed, so] n 1: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]

n 1: an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip] v 1: do a somersault

n 1: an adult female hog v 1: place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds" [syn: sow, seed] 2: introduce into an environment; "sow suspicion or beliefs" 3: place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds" [syn: inseminate, sow, sow in]

v 1: expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer" [syn: spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue] 2: eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate" [syn: spew, spew out, eruct] 3: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

n 1: agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither] 2: food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables v 1: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood, stew] 2: bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge] 3: cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the vegetables in wine"

v 1: fill by packing tightly; "stow the cart"

v 1: spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet" [syn: strew, straw] 2: cover; be dispersed over; "Dead bodies strewed the ground"

n 1: French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) [syn: Sue, Eugene Sue] v 1: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn: action, sue, litigate, process]

n 1: an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip]

adv 1: (postpositive) however; "it might be unpleasant, though"

n 1: severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth" 2: hard or painful trouble or struggle; "a country in the throes of economic collapse"

adv 1: from beginning to end; "read this book through" 2: over the whole distance; "this bus goes through to New York" 3: to completion; "think this through very carefully!" 4: in diameter; "this cylinder measures 15 inches through" 5: throughout the entire extent; "got soaked through in the rain"; "I'm frozen through"; "a letter shot through with the writer's personality"; "knew him through and through"; "boards rotten through and through" [syn: through, through and through] adj 1: having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies" [syn: done, through, through with(p)] 2: (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes; "a through street"; "a through bus"; "through traffic"

n 1: the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist); "the catcher made a good throw to second base" 2: a single chance or instance; "he couldn't afford $50 a throw" 3: the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam [syn: throw, stroke, cam stroke] 4: bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something 5: casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly; "he risked his fortune on a throw of the dice" v 1: propel through the air; "throw a frisbee" 2: move violently, energetically, or carelessly; "She threw herself forwards" 3: get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop] 4: place or put with great energy; "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar" [syn: throw, thrust] 5: convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture; "Throw a glance"; "She gave me a dirty look" [syn: give, throw] 6: cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever" [syn: throw, flip, switch] 7: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast, contrive, throw] 8: to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly; "Jane threw dinner together"; "throw the car into reverse" 9: cause to be confused emotionally [syn: bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate, throw] 10: utter with force; utter vehemently; "hurl insults"; "throw accusations at someone" [syn: hurl, throw] 11: organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" [syn: hold, throw, have, make, give] 12: make on a potter's wheel; "she threw a beautiful teapot" 13: cause to fall off; "The horse threw its inexperienced rider" 14: throw (a die) out onto a flat surface; "Throw a six" 15: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate]

n 1: one of the digits of the foot 2: the part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes 3: forepart of a hoof 4: (golf) the part of a clubhead farthest from the shaft v 1: walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction; "She toes inwards" 2: drive obliquely; "toe a nail" [syn: toe, toenail] 3: hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club 4: drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club 5: touch with the toe