| akin | | |
| adj. | 1. akin, kindred | similar in quality or character.; "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector" |
| ~ similar | marked by correspondence or resemblance.; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats" |
| adj. | 2. akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin | related by blood. |
| ~ related | connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage. |
| sort | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. form, kind, sort, variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" |
| ~ category | a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme. |
| ~ description | sort or variety.; "every description of book was there" |
| ~ type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing.; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?" |
| ~ antitype | an opposite or contrasting type. |
| ~ art form | (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture). |
| ~ style | a particular kind (as to appearance).; "this style of shoe is in demand" |
| ~ flavour, flavor | (physics) the six kinds of quarks. |
| ~ colour, color | (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction.; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors" |
| ~ species | a specific kind of something.; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy" |
| ~ genus | a general kind of something.; "ignore the genus communism" |
| ~ make, brand | a recognizable kind.; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?" |
| ~ genre | a kind of literary or artistic work. |
| ~ ilk, like | a kind of person.; "We'll not see his like again"; "I can't tolerate people of his ilk" |
| ~ manner | a kind.; "what manner of man are you?" |
| ~ model | a type of product.; "his car was an old model" |
| ~ stripe | a kind or category.; "businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal" |
| ~ like, the like, the likes of | a similar kind.; "dogs, foxes, and the like"; "we don't want the likes of you around here" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. sort | an approximate definition or example.; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing" |
| ~ similarity | the quality of being similar. |
| n. (person) | 3. sort | a person of a particular character or nature.; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| n. (process) | 4. sort, sorting | an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion.; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting" |
| ~ operation | (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).; "it can perform millions of operations per second" |
| v. (social) | 5. screen, screen out, sieve, sort | examine in order to test suitability.; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants" |
| ~ choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out | arrange or order by classes or categories.; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" |
| ~ unitise, unitize | separate or classify into units.; "The hospital was unitized for efficiency" |
| ~ catalogue, catalog | make an itemized list or catalog of; classify.; "He is cataloguing his photographic negatives" |
| ~ compare | examine and note the similarities or differences of.; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" |
| ~ isolate | separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them. |
| ~ refer | think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another.; "This plant can be referred to a known species" |
| ~ reclassify | classify anew, change the previous classification.; "The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species" |
| ~ size | sort according to size. |
| ~ dichotomise, dichotomize | divide into two opposing groups or kinds. |
| ~ stereotype, pigeonhole, stamp | treat or classify according to a mental stereotype.; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" |
| ~ group | arrange into a group or groups.; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
| ~ categorise, categorize | place into or assign to a category.; "Children learn early on to categorize" |
| ~ grade | determine the grade of or assign a grade to. |
| ~ number, count | put into a group.; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members" |
| type | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing.; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?" |
| ~ kind, sort, form, variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" |
| ~ breed | a special type.; "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs" |
| ~ nature | a particular type of thing.; "problems of this type are very difficult to solve"; "he's interested in trains and things of that nature"; "matters of a personal nature" |
| ~ version, edition, variant, variation | something a little different from others of the same type.; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" |
| n. (person) | 2. case, character, eccentric, type | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).; "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| n. (group) | 3. type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon. |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | animal or plant group having natural relations. |
| n. (communication) | 4. type | printed characters.; "small type is hard to read" |
| ~ grapheme, graphic symbol, character | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text. |
| ~ font, fount, typeface, face, case | a specific size and style of type within a type family. |
| n. (communication) | 5. type | all of the tokens of the same symbol.; "the word `element' contains five different types of character" |
| ~ symbol | an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper.; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up" |
| ~ block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides).; "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" |
| ~ kern | the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body. |
| ~ quad, space | (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences. |
| v. (communication) | 7. type, typewrite | write by means of a keyboard with types.; "type the acceptance letter, please" |
| ~ write | communicate or express by writing.; "Please write to me every week" |
| ~ shift | use a shift key on a keyboard.; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case" |
| ~ backspace | hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard.; "To erase, you must backspace" |
| ~ double-space | type with a full space between lines. |
| ~ triple-space | type with two empty spaces between lines. |
| ~ touch-type | type without looking at the keyboard. |
| v. (cognition) | 8. type, typecast | identify as belonging to a certain type.; "Such people can practically be typed" |
| ~ identify | consider to be equal or the same.; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives" |
| wake up | | |
| v. (body) | 1. arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken | cause to become awake or conscious.; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." |
| ~ reawaken | awaken once again. |
| ~ bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around | return to consciousness.; "These pictures bring back sad memories" |
| ~ call | rouse somebody from sleep with a call.; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (body) | 2. arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken | stop sleeping.; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" |
| ~ catch some z's, kip, log z's, sleep, slumber | be asleep. |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
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