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Maneuver

Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Broader term 9

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Evasion 76% connected

The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Operation 76% connected

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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Narrower term 20

Artifice 76% connected

A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Clinch 76% connected

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

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Completion 76% connected

The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.

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Device 76% connected

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.

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Feint 76% connected

Feigned; counterfeit.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Gambit 76% connected

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

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Icing 76% connected

of Ice

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Jugglery 76% connected

The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Obstruction 76% connected

The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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Parking 76% connected

of Park

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Ploy 76% connected

Sport; frolic.

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Ruse 76% connected

An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Step 76% connected

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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Stratagem 76% connected

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Manner of action 13

Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Conn 76% connected

See Con, to direct a ship.

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Corner 76% connected

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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Crab 76% connected

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen i…

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Dock 76% connected

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

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Helm 76% connected

See Haulm, straw.

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Jockey 76% connected

A professional rider of horses in races.

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Navigate 76% connected

To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or commu…

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Park 76% connected

A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

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Pilot 76% connected

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

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Sheer 76% connected

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

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Starboard 76% connected

That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port.

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Tactical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.

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Tactical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.

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Synonym 10

Direct 92% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Guide 92% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Head 92% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Manoeuvre 92% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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Operate 92% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Play 92% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

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Steer 92% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Tactic 92% connected

Alt. of Tactical

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Tactics 92% connected

The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into gran…

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