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To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.

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Manner of action 15

Announce 76% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Differentiate 76% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

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Distinguish 76% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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Enumerate 76% connected

To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Itemize 76% connected

To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad.

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List 76% connected

A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mistake 76% connected

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Secern 76% connected

To separate; to distinguish.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Severalize 76% connected

To distinguish.

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Type 76% connected

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

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Broader term 15

Associate 76% connected

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Colligate 76% connected

To tie or bind together.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Recognize 76% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Derivationally related 12

Identicalness 74% connected

The quality or state of being identical; sameness.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Identicalness 74% connected

The quality or state of being identical; sameness.

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Identifiable 74% connected

Capable of being identified.

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Identifiable 74% connected

Capable of being identified.

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Identification 74% connected

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

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Identification 74% connected

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

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Identity 74% connected

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

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Identity 74% connected

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

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Naming 74% connected

of Name

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Naming 74% connected

of Name

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Recognition 74% connected

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Recognition 74% connected

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

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Entails 5

Assort 72% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Class 72% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Classify 72% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Separate 72% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Sort 72% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Synonym 6

Describe 92% connected

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Discover 92% connected

To uncover.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Distinguish 92% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Key 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Name 92% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Place 92% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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