| basis | | |
| n. (linkdef) | 1. basis, footing, ground | a relation that provides the foundation for something.; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis" |
| ~ foundation | the basis on which something is grounded.; "there is little foundation for his objections" |
| ~ common ground | a basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork | the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" |
| ~ explanation | thought that makes something comprehensible. |
| ~ meat and potatoes | the fundamental part.; "successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration" |
| ~ supposal, assumption, supposition | a hypothesis that is taken for granted.; "any society is built upon certain assumptions" |
| n. (linkdef) | 3. base, basis | the most important or necessary part of something.; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" |
| ~ 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" |
| footing | | |
| n. (state) | 1. footing, terms | status with respect to the relations between people or groups.; "on good terms with her in-laws"; "on a friendly footing" |
| ~ status, position | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society.; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. foothold, footing | a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| ~ toehold | a small foothold used in climbing. |
| foundation | | |
| n. (linkdef) | 1. foundation | the basis on which something is grounded.; "there is little foundation for his objections" |
| ~ relation | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together. |
| ~ basis, footing, ground | a relation that provides the foundation for something.; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis" |
| ~ grass roots | the essential foundation or source.; "the problem was attacked at the grass roots" |
| n. (group) | 2. foundation | an institution supported by an endowment. |
| ~ financial institution, financial organisation, financial organization | an institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assets. |
| ~ charity | a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure | lowest support of a structure.; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" |
| ~ bed | a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track.; "the track bed had washed away" |
| ~ raft foundation | a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete. |
| ~ structure, construction | a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
| ~ support | supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation.; "the statue stood on a marble support" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. foundation, grounding | education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge.; "he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"; "a good grounding in mathematics" |
| ~ education | knowledge acquired by learning and instruction.; "it was clear that he had a very broad education" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. foundation, foundation garment | a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body. |
| ~ corset, stays, girdle | a woman's close-fitting foundation garment. |
| ~ roll-on | a woman's foundation garment rolled on to the hips. |
| ~ undergarment, unmentionable | a garment worn under other garments. |
| n. (act) | 6. creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination | the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" |
| ~ commencement, beginning, start | the act of starting something.; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" |
| ~ authorship, paternity | the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing.; "the authorship of the theory is disputed" |
| ground | | |
| n. (object) | 1. dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface.; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" |
| ~ object, physical object | a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" |
| ~ america | North America and South America and Central America. |
| ~ archipelago | a group of many islands in a large body of water. |
| ~ beachfront | a strip of land running along a beach. |
| ~ cape, ness | a strip of land projecting into a body of water. |
| ~ coastal plain | a plain adjacent to a coast. |
| ~ earth, globe, world | the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on.; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world" |
| ~ floor | the ground on which people and animals move about.; "the fire spared the forest floor" |
| ~ foreland | land forming the forward margin of something. |
| ~ timberland, woodland, forest, timber | land that is covered with trees and shrubs. |
| ~ island | a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. |
| ~ isthmus | a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas. |
| ~ land mass, landmass | a large continuous extent of land. |
| ~ mainland | the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula. |
| ~ neck | a narrow elongated projecting strip of land. |
| ~ oxbow | the land inside an oxbow bend in a river. |
| ~ peninsula | a large mass of land projecting into a body of water. |
| ~ champaign, plain, field | extensive tract of level open land.; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" |
| ~ slash | an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind). |
| ~ wonderland | a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder. |
| n. (motive) | 2. ground, reason | a rational motive for a belief or action.; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration" |
| ~ rational motive | a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument. |
| ~ occasion | reason.; "there was no occasion for complaint" |
| ~ account, score | grounds.; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful" |
| ~ wherefore, why | the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'. |
| n. (substance) | 3. earth, ground | the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface.; "they dug into the earth outside the church" |
| ~ moraine | accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier. |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ diatomaceous earth, diatomite, kieselguhr | a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material. |
| ~ saprolite | a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place. |
| ~ dirt, soil | the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock. |
| n. (location) | 4. ground | a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle).; "they gained ground step by step"; "they fought to regain the lost ground" |
| ~ military position, position | a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. background, ground | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills" |
| ~ panorama, vista, view, aspect, scene, prospect | the visual percept of a region.; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" |
| n. (object) | 6. ground, land, soil | material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use).; "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil" |
| ~ object, physical object | a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" |
| ~ badlands | deeply eroded barren land. |
| ~ bottomland, bottom | low-lying alluvial land near a river. |
| ~ coastland | land in a coastal area. |
| ~ cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, farmland, tilth | arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops. |
| ~ overburden | the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits. |
| ~ permafrost | ground that is permanently frozen. |
| ~ polder | low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands). |
| ~ rangeland | land suitable for grazing livestock. |
| ~ scablands | (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington). |
| ~ greensward, sod, sward, turf | surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots. |
| ~ wetland | a low area where the land is saturated with water. |
| n. (cognition) | 7. ground | a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused. |
| ~ percept, perception, perceptual experience | the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. earth, ground | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage). |
| ~ connecter, connector, connective, connection, connexion | an instrumentality that connects.; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" |
| ~ electricity | a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting. |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ surface | the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary.; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface" |
| n. (artifact) | 10. flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface. |
| ~ coat of paint | a layer of paint covering something else. |
| ~ couch | a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer. |
| v. (contact) | 11. anchor, ground | fix firmly and stably.; "anchor the lamppost in concrete" |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| v. (contact) | 12. ground | confine or restrict to the ground.; "After the accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot" |
| ~ restrain, confine, hold | to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement.; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" |
| v. (contact) | 13. ground | place or put on the ground. |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| v. (communication) | 14. ground | instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject. |
| ~ instruct, teach, learn | impart skills or knowledge to.; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" |
| v. (motion) | 15. ground, run aground, strand | bring to the ground.; "the storm grounded the ship" |
| ~ run aground, ground | hit or reach the ground. |
| ~ land | bring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| v. (motion) | 16. ground, run aground | hit or reach the ground. |
| ~ arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make | reach a destination, either real or abstract.; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
| v. (contact) | 17. ground | throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage. |
| ~ football, football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. |
| ~ ground | hit onto the ground. |
| ~ throw | propel through the air.; "throw a frisbee" |
| v. (contact) | 18. ground | hit a groundball.; "he grounded to the second baseman" |
| ~ 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 | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| ~ ground | hit onto the ground. |
| v. (contact) | 19. ground | hit onto the ground. |
| ~ 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 | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| ~ ground | hit a groundball.; "he grounded to the second baseman" |
| ~ ground | throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage. |
| v. (contact) | 20. ground, prime, undercoat | cover with a primer; apply a primer to. |
| ~ paint | apply paint to; coat with paint.; "We painted the rooms yellow" |
| v. (contact) | 21. ground | connect to a ground.; "ground the electrical connections for safety reasons" |
| ~ earth | connect to the earth.; "earth the circuit" |
| ~ connect, link, link up, tie | connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" |
| v. (cognition) | 22. base, establish, found, ground | use as a basis for; found on.; "base a claim on some observation" |
| ~ build | found or ground.; "build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation" |
| paw | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. paw | a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped. |
| ~ canid, canine | any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles. |
| ~ felid, feline | any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws. |
| ~ animal foot, foot | the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings. |
| ~ forepaw | front paw; analogous to the human hand. |
| ~ pad | the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger. |
| n. (body) | 2. hand, manus, mitt, paw | the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" |
| ~ human, human being, homo, man | any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. |
| ~ arteria digitalis, digital arteries | arteries in the hand and foot that supply the fingers and toes. |
| ~ arteria metacarpea, metacarpal artery | dorsal and palmar arteries of the hand. |
| ~ intercapitular vein, vena intercapitalis | veins connecting the dorsal and palmar veins of the hand or the dorsal and plantar veins of the foot. |
| ~ metacarpal vein, vena metacarpus | dorsal and palmar veins of the hand. |
| ~ arm | a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb. |
| ~ clenched fist, fist | a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting). |
| ~ hooks, maulers, meat hooks | large strong hand (as of a fighter).; "wait till I get my hooks on him" |
| ~ right hand, right | the hand that is on the right side of the body.; "he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"; "hit him with quick rights to the body" |
| ~ left hand, left | the hand that is on the left side of the body.; "jab with your left" |
| ~ palm, thenar | the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers. |
| ~ finger | any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb).; "her fingers were long and thin" |
| ~ extremity | that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso. |
| ~ ball | a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass.; "the ball at the base of the thumb"; "he stood on the balls of his feet" |
| ~ metacarpus | the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges. |
| v. (contact) | 3. paw | scrape with the paws.; "The bear pawed the door" |
| ~ scrape, grate | scratch repeatedly.; "The cat scraped at the armchair" |
| v. (contact) | 4. paw | touch clumsily.; "The man tried to paw her" |
| ~ touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with.; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" |
| ~ caress, fondle | touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner.; "He caressed her face"; "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi" |
| pedal | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. pedal, pedal point | a sustained bass note. |
| ~ musical note, note, tone | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.; "the singer held the note too long" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. foot lever, foot pedal, pedal, treadle | a lever that is operated with the foot. |
| ~ accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, throttle, gas, gun | a pedal that controls the throttle valve.; "he stepped on the gas" |
| ~ bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals. |
| ~ brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder. |
| ~ clutch pedal, clutch | a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism.; "he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other" |
| ~ lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum. |
| ~ automotive vehicle, motor vehicle | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails. |
| ~ pipe organ, organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard. |
| ~ soft pedal | a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound. |
| ~ loud pedal, sustaining pedal | a pedal on a piano that lifts the dampers from the strings and so allows them to continue vibrating. |
| v. (motion) | 3. bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal, wheel | ride a bicycle. |
| ~ unicycle | ride a unicycle. |
| ~ backpedal | pedal backwards on a bicycle. |
| ~ ride | be carried or travel on or in a vehicle.; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" |
| v. (creation) | 4. pedal | operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument. |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ control, operate | handle and cause to function.; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever" |
| ~ spiel, play | replay (as a melody).; "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully" |
| adj. (pertain) | 5. pedal | of or relating to the feet.; "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'" |
| recoil | | |
| n. (event) | 1. kick, recoil | the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired. |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| n. (event) | 2. backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion | a movement back from an impact. |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| ~ bouncing, bounce | rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts). |
| ~ resiliency, resilience | an occurrence of rebounding or springing back. |
| ~ carom, ricochet | a glancing rebound. |
| v. (motion) | 3. cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince | draw back, as with fear or pain.; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ shrink back, retract | pull away from a source of disgust or fear. |
| v. (social) | 4. backfire, backlash, recoil | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (motion) | 5. bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop | spring back; spring away from an impact.; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" |
| ~ kick back, recoil, kick | spring back, as from a forceful thrust.; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder" |
| ~ bound off, skip | bound off one point after another. |
| ~ carom | rebound after hitting.; "The car caromed off several lampposts" |
| ~ bound, jump, leap, spring | move forward by leaps and bounds.; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
| v. (contact) | 6. kick, kick back, recoil | spring back, as from a forceful thrust.; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder" |
| ~ bounce, rebound, ricochet, take a hop, resile, recoil, spring, bound, reverberate | spring back; spring away from an impact.; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" |
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