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Way

Away.

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Narrower term 42

Access 76% connected

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

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Aim 76% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Ambages 76% connected

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

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Approach 76% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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Bearing 76% connected

of Bear

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Clearance 76% connected

The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Dint 76% connected

A blow; a stroke.

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Drape 76% connected

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

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Escape 76% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Expedient 76% connected

Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desi…

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Heading 76% connected

of Head

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Headroom 76% connected

See Headway, 2.

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Headway 76% connected

The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

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Houseroom 76% connected

Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.

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Idiom 76% connected

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Instrument 76% connected

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…

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Lane 76% connected

Alone.

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Parking 76% connected

of Park

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Passage 76% connected

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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Path 76% connected

A trodden way; a footway.

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Response 76% connected

The act of responding.

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Road 76% connected

A journey, or stage of a journey.

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

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Salvation 76% connected

The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

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Sea room 76% connected

Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground.

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Seating 76% connected

of Seat

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Signature 76% connected

A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

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Staircase 76% connected

A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.

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Stairway 76% connected

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

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Sunna 76% connected

A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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Tool 76% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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Tooth 76% connected

One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which u…

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Trend 76% connected

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Voice 76% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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Warpath 76% connected

The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

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Waterway 76% connected

Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scu…

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Wise 76% connected

Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.

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Broader term 23

Artefact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Artifact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Category 76% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Choice 76% connected

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Effectuation 76% connected

Act of effectuating.

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Implementation 76% connected

Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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Itinerary 76% connected

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.

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Journey 76% connected

The travel or work of a day.

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Journeying 76% connected

of Journey

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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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Path 76% connected

A trodden way; a footway.

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Percentage 76% connected

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

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Selection 76% connected

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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Share 76% connected

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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Status 76% connected

State; condition; position of affairs.

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Conventionalize 74% connected

To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

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Conventionalize 74% connected

To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

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Roomy 74% connected

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

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Roomy 74% connected

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

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Roadside 70% connected

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

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Wayside 70% connected

The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.

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Containing whole 2

Transit 70% connected

The act of passing; passage through or over.

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Transportation 70% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

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Synonym 8

Agency 92% connected

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Direction 92% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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Fashion 92% connected

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house,…

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Manner 92% connected

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Mode 92% connected

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Path 92% connected

A trodden way; a footway.

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Room 92% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Style 92% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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