That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
These links were deliberately created. Use the interchangeability score and guidance to judge whether a word will work in your sentence.
One who adapts.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
He who, or that which, applies.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Alt. of Aspergillum
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, blows.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A device for pulling off boots.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To cheat; to deceive.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which charges.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who administers comfort or consolation.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Alt. of Conveniency
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who converts; one who makes converts.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, crushes.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Cipher; something written in cipher.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draug…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to dec…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To tread under foot; to trample.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who or that which grooves.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; t…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, heats.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, interrupts.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A light, brisk musical movement.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and,…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anythi…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Alt. of Mnemonical
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, moistens.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who peels or strips.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To throw; to pitch.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Going before; preceding.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, reflects.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
See Reenforcement.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zool.), any rasorial bird.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Alt. of Shoeing-horn
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, straightens.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stit…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who teases or vexes.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A plaything for children; a bawble.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apa…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, warms.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Alt. of Manoeuvre
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
These terms belong to the same specialist field or topic. They help you explore the subject, but they are not automatically synonyms.
Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.
The same nine destinations available from the header menu are shown here as a clear, fully visible grid.