| affiliate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. affiliate | a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization. |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| n. (group) | 2. affiliate | a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization.; "network affiliates" |
| ~ organization, organisation | a group of people who work together. |
| v. (social) | 3. affiliate, associate, assort, consort | keep company with; hang out with.; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ ally | become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage.; "He allied himself with the Communists" |
| ~ go steady, date, go out, see | date regularly; have a steady relationship with.; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" |
| ~ companion, company, keep company, accompany | be a companion to somebody. |
| v. (social) | 4. affiliate | join in an affiliation.; "The two colleges affiliated"; "They affiliated with a national group" |
| ~ join, fall in, get together | become part of; become a member of a group or organization.; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man" |
| ally | | |
| n. (group) | 1. ally | a friendly nation. |
| ~ body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land | a politically organized body of people under a single government.; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" |
| ~ alignment, alinement, coalition, alliance | an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty. |
| n. (person) | 2. ally, friend | an associate who provides cooperation or assistance.; "he's a good ally in fight" |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| ~ blood brother | a male sworn (usually by a ceremony involving the mingling of blood) to treat another as his brother. |
| v. (social) | 3. ally | become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage.; "He allied himself with the Communists" |
| ~ misally | make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately.; "The two countries are misallied" |
| ~ affiliate, assort, consort, associate | keep company with; hang out with.; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" |
| comrade | | |
| n. (person) | 1. associate, companion, comrade, familiar, fellow | a friend who is frequently in the company of another.; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" |
| ~ date, escort | a participant in a date.; "his date never stopped talking" |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| ~ playfellow, playmate | a companion at play. |
| ~ tovarich, tovarisch | a comrade (especially in Russian communism). |
| n. (person) | 2. comrade | a fellow member of the Communist Party. |
| ~ commie, communist | a socialist who advocates communism. |
| n. (person) | 3. brother, comrade | used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement.; "Greetings, comrade!" |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| member | | |
| n. (person) | 1. fellow member, member | one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization).; "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family" |
| ~ areopagite | a member of the council of the Areopagus. |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| ~ brother | a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group).; "none of his brothers would betray him" |
| ~ cabalist | a member of a cabal. |
| ~ charter member | one of the original members when an organization was founded. |
| ~ commissioner | a member of a commission. |
| ~ committee member | a member of a committee. |
| ~ council member, councillor | a member of a council. |
| ~ conservative | a member of a Conservative Party. |
| ~ fellow | a member of a learned society.; "he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association" |
| ~ homeboy | a fellow male member of a youth gang. |
| ~ homegirl | a fellow female member of a youth gang. |
| ~ huddler | a member of a huddle. |
| ~ inductee | a person inducted into an organization or social group.; "Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth were 1936 inductees in the National Baseball Hall of Fame" |
| ~ joiner | a person who likes to join groups. |
| ~ kibbutznik | a member of a kibbutz. |
| ~ kolkhoznik | a member of a kolkhoz. |
| ~ board member | a member of a governing board. |
| ~ clan member, clansman, clanswoman | a member of a clan. |
| ~ club member | someone who is a member of a club. |
| ~ pledge | someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group. |
| ~ rosicrucian | a member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore. |
| ~ rosicrucian | a member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society. |
| ~ rotarian | a member of a Rotary Club. |
| ~ sister | a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group.; "none of her sisters would betray her" |
| ~ sodalist | a member of a sodality. |
| ~ tribesman | someone who lives in a tribe. |
| n. (linkdef) | 2. member | anything that belongs to a set or class.; "snakes are members of the class Reptilia"; "members of the opposite sex" |
| ~ component part, part, portion, component, constituent | something determined in relation to something that includes it.; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton" |
| n. (body) | 3. appendage, extremity, member | an external body part that projects from the body.; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" |
| ~ chelicera | either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing. |
| ~ mouthpart | any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding. |
| ~ fang | an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs. |
| ~ chela, nipper, pincer, claw | a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods. |
| ~ parapodium | one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing. |
| ~ fin | organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals. |
| ~ pleopod, swimmeret | one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming. |
| ~ external body part | any body part visible externally. |
| ~ limb | one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper. |
| ~ dactyl, digit | a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates. |
| n. (group) | 4. member | an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations).; "the library was a member of the interlibrary loan association"; "Canada is a member of the United Nations" |
| ~ social unit, unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group.; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
| n. (body) | 5. member, penis, phallus | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism). |
| ~ glans penis | the conical mass of erectile tissue that forms the head of the penis. |
| ~ vena bulbi penis | vein of the head of the penis; tributary of the internal pudendal vein that drains the perineum. |
| ~ urethra | duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct. |
| ~ male reproductive system | the reproductive system of males. |
| ~ family jewels, male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals | external male sex organs. |
| ~ erectile organ | an organ containing erectile tissue. |
| ~ cock, pecker, dick, peter, putz, prick, tool, shaft | obscene terms for penis. |
| ~ micropenis, microphallus | an abnormally small penis. |
| ~ foreskin, prepuce | a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis. |
| volume | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. volume | the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object.; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume" |
| ~ quantity, measure, amount | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify. |
| ~ capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity. |
| ~ capacity, content | the amount that can be contained.; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. bulk, mass, volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude.; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" |
| ~ magnitude | the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small).; "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" |
| ~ dollar volume, turnover | the volume measured in dollars.; "the store's dollar volume continues to rise" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. book, volume | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together.; "he used a large book as a doorstop" |
| ~ album | a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc. |
| ~ book binding, cover, binding, back | the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book.; "the book had a leather binding" |
| ~ coffee-table book | an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table. |
| ~ folio | a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages.; "the first folio of Shakespeare's plays" |
| ~ fore edge, foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine. |
| ~ hardback, hardcover | a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers. |
| ~ journal | a record book as a physical object. |
| ~ novel | a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction.; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels" |
| ~ order book | a book in which customers' orders are entered; usually makes multiple copies of the order. |
| ~ paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback, softback book | a book with paper covers. |
| ~ picture book | a book consisting chiefly of pictures. |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| ~ sketch block, sketch pad, sketchbook | a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn. |
| ~ backbone, spine | the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved.; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book" |
| ~ notebook | a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda. |
| n. (communication) | 4. volume | a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications.; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review" |
| ~ publication | a copy of a printed work offered for distribution. |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| n. (quantity) | 5. volume | a relative amount.; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water" |
| ~ quantity, measure, amount | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify. |
| n. (attribute) | 6. intensity, loudness, volume | the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction).; "the kids played their music at full volume" |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| ~ crescendo | (music) a gradual increase in loudness. |
| ~ fortissimo, forte | (music) loud. |
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