Explore further
Words connected by meaning
Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Billhook
noun · 78% connection
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Buckle
noun · 78% connection
A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as par…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Cornet-a-piston
noun · 78% connection
A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Drawing
noun · 78% connection
The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Fillet
noun · 78% connection
A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Flashing
noun · 78% connection
Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Fork
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Frame
noun · 78% connection
A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Gallows
n. sing. · 78% connection
A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Gyrostat
noun · 78% connection
A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Harp
noun · 78% connection
A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Hilt
noun · 78% connection
A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
King
noun · 78% connection
A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Knife
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Lamella
noun · 78% connection
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Number
noun · 78% connection
To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
Pass
verb · 78% connection
To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, consisting, thin, metal, frame.
