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Mesh

The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

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Broader term 21

Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Cloth 76% connected

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Coordinate 76% connected

Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Entangle 76% connected

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

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Fabric 76% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Grab 76% connected

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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Impinging 76% connected

of Impinge

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Mat 76% connected

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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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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Organize 76% connected

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snarl 76% connected

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

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Snatch 76% connected

To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

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Striking 76% connected

of Strike

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Tangle 76% connected

To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

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Textile 76% connected

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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Topology 76% connected

The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

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Manner of action 4

Flip 76% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Switch 76% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Narrower term 8

Gauze 76% connected

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

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Netting 76% connected

of Net

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Save-all 76% connected

Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.

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Snood 76% connected

The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.

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Sparker 76% connected

A spark arrester.

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Tulle 76% connected

In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

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Veiling 76% connected

of Veil

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Wirework 76% connected

Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

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Derivationally related 2

Interlock 74% connected

To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

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Interlock 74% connected

To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

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Component part 1

Backbone 70% connected

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

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Containing whole 2

In 70% connected

The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying…

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Inch 70% connected

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

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Synonym 10

Engage 92% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Engagement 92% connected

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enmesh 92% connected

To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ensnarl 92% connected

To entangle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Interlock 92% connected

To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lock 92% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meshing 92% connected

of Mesh

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Net 92% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Network 92% connected

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Operate 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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