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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.

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Similar meaning 10

Apical 84% connected

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

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Apical 84% connected

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

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Crowning 84% connected

of Crown

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Crowning 84% connected

of Crown

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Topmost 84% connected

Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

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Topmost 84% connected

Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

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Upmost 84% connected

Highest; topmost; uppermost.

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Upmost 84% connected

Highest; topmost; uppermost.

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Uppermost 84% connected

Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.

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Uppermost 84% connected

Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.

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Broader term 50

Attain 76% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Bout 76% connected

As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

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Canvas 76% connected

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

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Canvass 76% connected

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its p…

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Climax 76% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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Clip 76% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Complete 76% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Covering 76% connected

of Cover

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Culminate 76% connected

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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Degree 76% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Dress 76% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Excel 76% connected

To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Intensity 76% connected

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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Intensiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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Level 76% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Lie 76% connected

See Lye.

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Lop 76% connected

A flea.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Overhaul 76% connected

To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

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Overtake 76% connected

To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Place 76% 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…

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Platform 76% connected

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

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Plaything 76% connected

A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Prune 76% connected

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune…

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Region 76% connected

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general…

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Snip 76% connected

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Surpass 76% connected

To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

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Toy 76% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

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Trim 76% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Narrower term 17

Blouse 76% connected

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform…

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Bodice 76% connected

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

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Brow 76% connected

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

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Cap 76% connected

A covering for the head

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Capital 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the head.

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Chapiter 76% connected

A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

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Crest 76% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Crown 76% connected

of Crow

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Halter 76% connected

One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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Head 76% 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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Hilltop 76% connected

The top of a hill.

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Lid 76% connected

That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

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Masthead 76% connected

The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.

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Pate 76% connected

See Patte.

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Pinnacle 76% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Poll 76% connected

A parrot; -- familiarly so called.

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Tiptop 76% connected

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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Manner of action 2

Hop 76% connected

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Breast 74% connected

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

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Breast 74% connected

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

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Overlay 74% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Overlay 74% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Pinch 74% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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Pinch 74% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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Summit 74% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Summit 74% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Superiority 74% connected

The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

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Superiority 74% connected

The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

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Transcendency 74% connected

The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.

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Transcendency 74% connected

The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.

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Transcendent 74% connected

Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

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Transcendent 74% connected

Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

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Entails 3

Compete 72% connected

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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Contend 72% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Vie 72% connected

To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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Containing whole 4

Circus 70% connected

A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through t…

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Frame 70% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Inning 70% connected

of Inn

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Ship 70% connected

Pay; reward.

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See also 6

Best 66% connected

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…

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Best 66% connected

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…

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Upper 66% connected

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a…

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Upper 66% connected

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a…

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Synonym 23

Acme 92% connected

The top or highest point; the culmination.

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Clear 92% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Cover 92% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Crest 92% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Crown 92% connected

of Crow

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Elevation 92% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Exceed 92% connected

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…

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Height 92% connected

The condition of being high; elevated position.

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Lead 92% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Meridian 92% connected

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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Overstep 92% connected

To step over or beyond; to transgress.

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Peak 92% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Pinch 92% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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Pinnacle 92% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Summit 92% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Superlative 92% connected

Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the…

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Teetotum 92% connected

A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

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Tip 92% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Tiptop 92% connected

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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Transcend 92% connected

To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.

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.

Upside 92% connected

The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

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.

Whirligig 92% connected

A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.

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.

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Bottom 94% connected

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Bottom 94% connected

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Side 94% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Side 94% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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