| bat | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. bat, chiropteran | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. |
| ~ eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials. |
| ~ chiroptera, order chiroptera | an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats). |
| ~ fruit bat, megabat | large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit. |
| ~ carnivorous bat, microbat | typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution. |
| ~ wing | a movable organ for flying (one of a pair). |
| n. (act) | 2. at-bat, bat | (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit.; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" |
| ~ turn, play | (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession.; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bat, squash racket, squash racquet | a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash. |
| ~ racquet, racket | a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. bat, cricket bat | the club used in playing cricket.; "a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting" |
| ~ cricket equipment | sports equipment used in playing cricket. |
| ~ handgrip, handle, grip, hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. bat | a club used for hitting a ball in various games. |
| ~ baseball bat, lumber | an implement used in baseball by the batter. |
| ~ club | stout stick that is larger at one end.; "he carried a club in self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club" |
| ~ paddle | small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games. |
| v. (contact) | 6. bat | strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.; "bat the ball" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| ~ bat | use a bat.; "Who's batting?" |
| ~ bat | have a turn at bat.; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez" |
| ~ switch-hit | bat right-handed against a left-handed and left-handed against a right-handed pitcher. |
| v. (body) | 7. bat, flutter | wink briefly.; "bat one's eyelids" |
| ~ blink, nictate, nictitate, wink | briefly shut the eyes.; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" |
| v. (contact) | 8. bat | have a turn at bat.; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| ~ bat | strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.; "bat the ball" |
| v. (contact) | 9. bat | use a bat.; "Who's batting?" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| ~ bat | strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.; "bat the ball" |
| v. (contact) | 10. bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ flail, thrash, lam, thresh | give a thrashing to; beat hard. |
| club | | |
| n. (group) | 1. ball club, baseball club, club, nine | a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" |
| ~ baseball team | a team that plays baseball. |
| ~ baseball league | a league of baseball teams. |
| n. (group) | 2. club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| ~ association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ athenaeum, atheneum | a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning. |
| ~ bookclub | a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices. |
| ~ chapter | a local branch of some fraternity or association.; "he joined the Atlanta chapter" |
| ~ chess club | a club of people to play chess. |
| ~ country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing. |
| ~ frat, fraternity | a social club for male undergraduates. |
| ~ glee club | a club organized to sing together. |
| ~ golf club | a club of people to play golf. |
| ~ hunt club, hunt | an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport. |
| ~ investors club | a club of small investors who buy and sell securities jointly. |
| ~ jockey club | a club to promote and regulate horse racing. |
| ~ racket club | club for players of racket sports. |
| ~ rowing club | a club for rowers. |
| ~ slate club | a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas). |
| ~ sorority | a social club for female undergraduates. |
| ~ turnverein | a club of tumblers or gymnasts. |
| ~ boat club, yacht club | club that promotes and supports yachting and boating. |
| ~ service club | a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services. |
| ~ club member | someone who is a member of a club. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. club | stout stick that is larger at one end.; "he carried a club in self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club" |
| ~ bat | a club used for hitting a ball in various games. |
| ~ bludgeon | a club used as a weapon. |
| ~ cudgel | a club that is used as a weapon. |
| ~ indian club | a bottle-shaped club used in exercises. |
| ~ knobkerrie, knobkerry | a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa. |
| ~ lathee, lathi | club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India. |
| ~ stick | an implement consisting of a length of wood.; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick" |
| ~ billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon, baton | a short stout club used primarily by policemen. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. club, clubhouse | a building that is occupied by a social club.; "the clubhouse needed a new roof" |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ clubroom | a room used for the activities of a club. |
| ~ reading room | a room set aside for reading. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. club, golf club, golf-club | golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball. |
| ~ club-head, club head, clubhead, golf-club head | (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball. |
| ~ golf equipment | sports equipment used in playing golf. |
| ~ iron | a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head. |
| ~ wood | a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head.; "metal woods are now standard" |
| n. (artifact) | 6. club | a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it.; "he led a small club"; "clubs were trumps" |
| ~ minor suit | ( bridge) a suit of inferior scoring value, either diamonds or clubs. |
| ~ playing card | one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. cabaret, club, night club, nightclub, nightspot | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" |
| ~ dive, honkytonk | a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall. |
| ~ spot | a business establishment for entertainment.; "night spot" |
| ~ supper club | usually a small luxurious nightclub. |
| v. (social) | 8. club | unite with a common purpose.; "The two men clubbed together" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| v. (social) | 9. club | gather and spend time together.; "They always club together" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (contact) | 10. bludgeon, club | strike with a club or a bludgeon. |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| v. (contact) | 11. club | gather into a club-like mass.; "club hair" |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| lash | | |
| n. (body) | 1. cilium, eyelash, lash | any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids. |
| ~ hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss.; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells" |
| ~ eyelid, lid, palpebra | either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.; "his lids would stay open no longer" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. lash, thong | leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip. |
| ~ leather strip | implement consisting of a strip of leather. |
| ~ whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping. |
| n. (act) | 3. lash, whip, whiplash | a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object.; "the whip raised a red welt" |
| ~ blow | a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon.; "a blow on the head" |
| v. (contact) | 4. flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ flagellate, scourge | whip.; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" |
| ~ leather | whip with a leather strap. |
| ~ horsewhip | whip with a whip intended for horses. |
| ~ switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod. |
| ~ cowhide | flog with a cowhide. |
| ~ cat | beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| ~ birch | whip with a birch twig. |
| v. (motion) | 5. lash | lash or flick about sharply.; "The lion lashed its tail" |
| ~ sway, swing | move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner.; "He swung back" |
| v. (contact) | 6. lash, whip | strike as if by whipping.; "The curtain whipped her face" |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| ~ urticate | whip with or as with nettles. |
| v. (contact) | 7. lash | bind with a rope, chain, or cord.; "lash the horse" |
| ~ tie, bind | fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair" |
| ~ frap | make secure by lashing.; "frap a sail" |
| beat | | |
| n. (location) | 1. beat, round | a regular route for a sentry or policeman.; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" |
| ~ itinerary, route, path | an established line of travel or access. |
| n. (event) | 2. beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.; "he could feel the beat of her heart" |
| ~ periodic event, recurrent event | an event that recurs at intervals. |
| ~ diastole | the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood. |
| ~ systole | the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery. |
| ~ throbbing, pounding, throb | an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart).; "he felt a throbbing in his head" |
| n. (communication) | 3. beat, musical rhythm, rhythm | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| ~ downbeat | the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward). |
| ~ offbeat, upbeat | an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure). |
| ~ syncopation | a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat. |
| ~ musical time | (music) the beat of musical rhythm. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. beat | a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations. |
| ~ oscillation, vibration | (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean. |
| n. (person) | 5. beat, beatnik | a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. |
| ~ beat generation, beatniks, beats | a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop). |
| ~ recusant, nonconformist | someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct. |
| n. (event) | 6. beat | the sound of stroke or blow.; "he heard the beat of a drum" |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| n. (communication) | 7. beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. |
| ~ metrics, prosody | the study of poetic meter and the art of versification. |
| ~ poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification. |
| ~ catalexis | the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse. |
| ~ scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns. |
| ~ common meter, common measure | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad. |
| ~ metrical foot, metrical unit, foot | (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. |
| n. (attribute) | 8. beat | a regular rate of repetition.; "the cox raised the beat" |
| ~ pace, rate | the relative speed of progress or change.; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated" |
| n. (act) | 9. beat | a stroke or blow.; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" |
| ~ stroke | a single complete movement. |
| n. (act) | 10. beat | the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing. |
| ~ sailing | riding in a sailboat. |
| v. (competition) | 11. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ win | be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" |
| ~ outscore, outpoint | score more points than one's opponents. |
| ~ walk over | beat easily.; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" |
| ~ eliminate | remove from a contest or race.; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" |
| ~ worst, mop up, whip, pip, rack up | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| ~ whomp | beat overwhelmingly. |
| ~ get the best, have the best, overcome | overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.; "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
| ~ spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle | defeat disastrously. |
| ~ get the jump | be there first.; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" |
| ~ chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw | defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
| ~ outsmart, outwit, circumvent, outfox, overreach, beat | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| ~ defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| ~ surmount, master, overcome, get over, subdue | get on top of; deal with successfully.; "He overcame his shyness" |
| ~ best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump | get the better of.; "the goal was to best the competition" |
| ~ outfight | to fight better than; get the better of.; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" |
| ~ overmaster, overpower, overwhelm | overcome by superior force. |
| ~ checkmate, mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" |
| ~ immobilise, immobilize | make defenseless. |
| ~ outplay | excel or defeat in a game.; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" |
| ~ drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| v. (contact) | 12. beat, beat up, work over | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ strong-arm | use physical force against.; "They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant" |
| ~ soak | beat severely. |
| ~ pistol-whip | beat with a pistol. |
| ~ belabour, belabor | beat soundly. |
| ~ rough up | treat violently.; "The police strong-armed the suspect" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| ~ flog, lash, lather, trounce, welt, whip, slash, strap | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ cane, lambast, lambaste, flog | beat with a cane. |
| ~ kayo, knock cold, knock out | knock unconscious or senseless.; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds" |
| ~ flail, thrash, lam, thresh | give a thrashing to; beat hard. |
| ~ clobber, baste, batter | strike violently and repeatedly.; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" |
| ~ larrup, spank, paddle | give a spanking to; subject to a spanking. |
| v. (contact) | 13. beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| ~ full | beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening.; "full the cloth" |
| ~ beat | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| ~ beat | strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" |
| ~ beetle | beat with a beetle. |
| ~ bastinado | beat somebody on the soles of the feet. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| ~ coldcock, floor, knock down, deck, dump | knock down with force.; "He decked his opponent" |
| ~ whang | beat with force. |
| ~ paste | hit with the fists.; "He pasted his opponent" |
| ~ thresh, thrash | beat the seeds out of a grain. |
| ~ hammer | beat with or as if with a hammer.; "hammer the metal flat" |
| v. (motion) | 14. beat, pound, thump | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pulsate, pulse, throb | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" |
| ~ palpitate, flutter | beat rapidly.; "His heart palpitated" |
| ~ thrash | beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all. |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ flap | move noisily.; "flags flapped in the strong wind" |
| v. (creation) | 15. beat | shape by beating.; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
| ~ shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work | make something, usually for a specific function.; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" |
| ~ forge, hammer | create by hammering.; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" |
| v. (perception) | 16. beat, drum, thrum | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (perception) | 17. beat | glare or strike with great intensity.; "The sun was beating down on us" |
| ~ glare | shine intensely.; "The sun glared down on us" |
| v. (motion) | 18. beat, flap | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ flutter | flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements.; "The seagulls fluttered overhead" |
| ~ flap, beat | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| ~ bate | flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons. |
| ~ clap | cause to strike the air in flight.; "The big bird clapped its wings" |
| v. (motion) | 19. beat | sail with much tacking or with difficulty.; "The boat beat in the strong wind" |
| ~ navigation, pilotage, piloting | the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place. |
| ~ sail | travel on water propelled by wind.; "I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on" |
| v. (contact) | 20. beat, scramble | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ whisk, whip | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| ~ cream | make creamy by beating.; "Cream the butter" |
| ~ raise up, commove, disturb, stir up, vex, shake up, agitate | change the arrangement or position of. |
| v. (contact) | 21. beat | strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (stative) | 22. beat | be superior.; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (social) | 23. beat, bunk | avoid paying.; "beat the subway fare" |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| v. (perception) | 24. beat, tick, ticktack, ticktock | make a sound like a clock or a timer.; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (motion) | 25. beat, flap | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ flap, beat | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| ~ flail, thresh | move like a flail; thresh about.; "Her arms were flailing" |
| ~ clap | strike the air in flight.; "the wings of the birds clapped loudly" |
| v. (motion) | 26. beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ beat | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| ~ thump, beat, pound | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| ~ tap out, thump out, beat out | beat out a rhythm. |
| ~ drum, thrum, beat | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| v. (motion) | 27. beat, pulsate, quiver | move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pulsate, pulse, throb | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" |
| v. (creation) | 28. beat | make by pounding or trampling.; "beat a path through the forest" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ trample, tread | tread or stomp heavily or roughly.; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" |
| v. (creation) | 29. beat | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| ~ play | perform music on (a musical instrument).; "He plays the flute"; "Can you play on this old recorder?" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| v. (contact) | 30. beat | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| v. (competition) | 31. beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| v. (cognition) | 32. amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex | be a mystery or bewildering to.; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
| ~ stump, mix up | cause to be perplexed or confounded.; "This problem stumped her" |
| ~ befuddle, confound, bedevil, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
| ~ riddle | set a difficult problem or riddle.; "riddle me a riddle" |
| ~ elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
| v. (body) | 33. beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| ~ fag out, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, fag, wear | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| ~ frazzle | exhaust physically or emotionally.; "She was frazzled after the visit of her in-laws" |
| ~ play | exhaust by allowing to pull on the line.; "play a hooked fish" |
| ~ kill | tire out completely.; "The daily stress of her work is killing her" |
| adj. | 34. all in, beat, bushed, dead | very tired.; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ tired | depleted of strength or energy.; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" |
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| n. (artifact) | 1. cane | a stick that people can lean on to help them walk. |
| ~ malacca cane, malacca | a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm. |
| ~ swagger stick | a short cane or stick covered with leather and carried by army officers. |
| ~ sword cane, sword stick | a cane concealing a sword or dagger. |
| ~ walking stick | a stick carried in the hand for support in walking. |
| n. (plant) | 2. cane | a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane. |
| ~ sugar cane, sugarcane | juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice. |
| ~ rattan cane, rattan | the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes. |
| ~ malacca | stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles. |
| ~ stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. cane | a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment. |
| ~ switch | a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment. |
| v. (contact) | 4. cane, flog, lambast, lambaste | beat with a cane. |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
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| whip | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping. |
| ~ cat-o'-nine-tails, cat | a whip with nine knotted cords.; "British sailors feared the cat" |
| ~ cowhide | a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow. |
| ~ crop | the stock or handle of a whip. |
| ~ horsewhip | a whip for controlling horses. |
| ~ instrument | a device that requires skill for proper use. |
| ~ knout | a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners. |
| ~ thong, lash | leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip. |
| ~ quirt | whip with a leather thong at the end. |
| ~ hunting crop, riding crop | a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates. |
| ~ flagellum, scourge | a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor). |
| ~ stock | the handle end of some implements or tools.; "he grabbed the cue by the stock" |
| ~ strap | whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging. |
| n. (person) | 2. party whip, whip | a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline. |
| ~ legislator | someone who makes or enacts laws. |
| n. (food) | 3. whip | a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit. |
| ~ afters, dessert, sweet | a dish served as the last course of a meal. |
| ~ prune whip | dessert made of prune puree and whipped cream. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. whip | (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club. |
| ~ golf, golf game | a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes. |
| ~ flexibility, flexibleness | the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped. |
| v. (competition) | 5. mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worst | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| v. (motion) | 6. whip | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.; "The tall grass whipped in the wind" |
| ~ jactitate, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, thrash, convulse, toss, slash | move or stir about violently.; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" |
| v. (contact) | 7. whip, whisk | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ scramble, beat | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| v. (communication) | 8. blister, scald, whip | subject to harsh criticism.; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" |
| ~ lash out, attack, assail, assault, snipe, round | attack in speech or writing.; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" |
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| shaft | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. shaft | a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer. |
| ~ line | a mark that is long relative to its width.; "He drew a line on the chart" |
| ~ arrow, pointer | a mark to indicate a direction or relation. |
| n. (communication) | 2. barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam | an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" |
| ~ comment, remark, input | a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information.; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" |
| ~ cheap shot | an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. shaft | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow). |
| ~ axle | a shaft on which a wheel rotates. |
| ~ rod | a long thin implement made of metal or wood. |
| ~ thill | one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light | a column of light (as from a beacon). |
| ~ heat ray | a ray that produces a thermal effect. |
| ~ high beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination. |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| ~ moon-ray, moon ray, moonbeam | a ray of moonlight. |
| ~ sunbeam, sunray | a ray of sunlight. |
| ~ laser beam | a beam of light generated by a laser. |
| ~ low beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance. |
| n. (body) | 5. diaphysis, shaft | the main (mid) section of a long bone. |
| ~ long bone, os longum | in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow. |
| n. (body) | 6. cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft, tool | obscene terms for penis. |
| ~ penis, phallus, member | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism). |
| ~ dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, filth, smut | an offensive or indecent word or phrase. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. lance, shaft, spear | a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon. |
| ~ assagai, assegai | the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa. |
| ~ barb | a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove. |
| ~ javelin | a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events. |
| ~ spear-point, spearpoint, spearhead | the head and sharpened point of a spear. |
| ~ trident | a spear with three prongs. |
| ~ weapon, weapon system, arm | any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting.; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" |
| n. (artifact) | 8. shaft | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator). |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ elevator shaft | a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor. |
| ~ passageway | a passage between rooms or between buildings. |
| ~ ventilation shaft | a shaft in a building; serves as an air passage for ventilation. |
| ~ well | an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway). |
| n. (artifact) | 9. scape, shaft | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column. |
| ~ pillar, column | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. |
| ~ upright, vertical | a vertical structural member as a post or stake.; "the ball sailed between the uprights" |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| n. (artifact) | 10. shaft | a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel. |
| ~ air shaft, air well | a shaft for ventilation. |
| ~ downcast | a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine. |
| ~ mine | excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted. |
| ~ passage | a way through or along which someone or something may pass. |
| ~ tunnel | a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars).; "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection" |
| n. (artifact) | 11. rotating shaft, shaft | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion. |
| ~ camshaft | has cams attached to it. |
| ~ crankshaft | a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank. |
| ~ driveshaft | a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application. |
| ~ rod | a long thin implement made of metal or wood. |
| ~ rotating mechanism | a mechanism that rotates. |
| ~ mandrel, mandril, arbor, spindle | any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts. |
| ~ transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential. |
| n. (animal) | 12. calamus, quill, shaft | the hollow spine of a feather. |
| ~ feather, plumage, plume | the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds. |
| ~ rib | a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant. |
| v. (possession) | 13. shaft | equip with a shaft. |
| ~ equip, fit out, outfit, fit | provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" |
| v. (competition) | 14. cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft | defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
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