| reserve | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. modesty, reserve | formality and propriety of manner. |
| ~ correctitude, properness, propriety | correct or appropriate behavior. |
| ~ demureness | the trait of behaving with reserve and decorum. |
| n. (possession) | 2. backlog, reserve, stockpile | something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose. |
| ~ accumulation | (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation. |
| ~ bank | a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies). |
| ~ fuel level | the amount of fuel remaining. |
| ~ reserve account, reserve fund | funds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments. |
| n. (person) | 3. reserve, second-stringer, substitute | an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced. |
| ~ bench | the reserve players on a team.; "our team has a strong bench" |
| ~ athlete, jock | a person trained to compete in sports. |
| ~ bench warmer | (sports) a substitute who seldom plays. |
| ~ pinch hitter | (baseball) a substitute for the regular batter. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. reserve | (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions. |
| ~ medical specialty, medicine | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques. |
| ~ indefinite quantity | an estimated quantity. |
| ~ pulmonary reserve | the additional volume of air that the lungs can inhale and exhale when breathing to the limit of capacity in times of stress. |
| n. (location) | 5. reservation, reserve | a district that is reserved for particular purpose. |
| ~ administrative district, administrative division, territorial division | a district defined for administrative purposes. |
| ~ indian reservation | a reservation set aside for the use of Indians. |
| ~ preserve | a reservation where animals are protected. |
| n. (group) | 6. military reserve, reserve | armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ reservist | a member of a military reserve. |
| n. (attribute) | 7. reserve, reticence, taciturnity | the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary. |
| ~ uncommunicativeness | the trait of being uncommunicative. |
| v. (possession) | 8. reserve | hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency.; "they held back their applause in anticipation" |
| ~ withhold, keep back | hold back; refuse to hand over or share.; "The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room" |
| ~ devote | set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use.; "this land was devoted to mining" |
| v. (cognition) | 9. allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside | give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" |
| ~ allot, portion, assign | give out.; "We were assigned new uniforms" |
| v. (communication) | 10. reserve | obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance.; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's" |
| ~ call for, request, bespeak, quest | express the need or desire for; ask for.; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" |
| ~ book up | book all available places or tickets. |
| ~ book, reserve, hold | arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance.; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" |
| v. (social) | 11. book, hold, reserve | arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance.; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" |
| ~ call for, request, bespeak, quest | express the need or desire for; ask for.; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" |
| ~ reserve | obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance.; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's" |
| ~ procure, secure | get by special effort.; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed" |
| ~ hold open, keep open, save, keep | retain rights to.; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" |
| diverge | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. diverge | move or draw apart.; "The two paths diverge here" |
| ~ furcate, branch, fork, ramify, separate | divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.; "The road forks" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (stative) | 2. diverge | have no limits as a mathematical series. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ 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. (stative) | 3. diverge | extend in a different direction.; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged" |
| ~ divaricate | branch off.; "The road divaricates here" |
| ~ bifurcate | split or divide into two. |
| v. (stative) | 4. depart, deviate, diverge, vary | be at variance with; be out of line with. |
| ~ aberrate | diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration.; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens" |
| ~ aberrate | diverge from the expected.; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman" |
| ~ belie, contradict, negate | be in contradiction with. |
| ~ differ | be different.; "These two tests differ in only one respect" |
| isolate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. insulate, isolate | place or set apart.; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" |
| ~ segregate | separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others.; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims" |
| ~ ghettoise, ghettoize | put in a ghetto.; "The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized" |
| ~ cloister | seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister.; "She cloistered herself in the office" |
| ~ seclude, sequestrate, sequester, withdraw | keep away from others.; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" |
| ~ quarantine | place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons.; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England" |
| ~ maroon | leave stranded on a desert island without resources.; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island" |
| ~ discriminate, single out, separate | treat differently on the basis of sex or race. |
| v. (change) | 2. isolate | obtain in pure form.; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound" |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ preisolate | isolate beforehand. |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| v. (change) | 3. isolate, keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart | set apart from others.; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" |
| ~ disunite, separate, part, divide | force, take, or pull apart.; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. isolate | separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them. |
| ~ psychological science, psychology | the science of mental life. |
| ~ class, classify, sort out, assort, sort, separate | arrange or order by classes or categories.; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" |
| separate | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. offprint, reprint, separate | a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication. |
| ~ article | nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. separate | a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments. |
| ~ garment | an article of clothing.; "garments of the finest silk" |
| v. (stative) | 3. divide, separate | act as a barrier between; stand between.; "The mountain range divides the two countries" |
| v. (contact) | 4. disunite, divide, part, separate | force, take, or pull apart.; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
| ~ compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up | separate into isolated compartments or categories.; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!" |
| ~ polarise, polarize | cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions. |
| ~ keep apart, sequestrate, set apart, isolate, sequester | set apart from others.; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" |
| ~ disjoin, disjoint | make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of. |
| ~ disarticulate, disjoint | separate at the joints.; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" |
| ~ disconnect | make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| ~ tear | to separate or be separated by force.; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" |
| ~ joint | separate (meat) at the joint. |
| ~ gin | separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin. |
| ~ break | separate from a clinch, in boxing.; "The referee broke the boxers" |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| ~ sever, break up | set or keep apart.; "sever a relationship" |
| ~ rupture, tear, snap, bust | separate or cause to separate abruptly.; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
| ~ know | be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.; "The child knows right from wrong" |
| ~ identify, place | recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something.; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster" |
| ~ discriminate, know apart | recognize or perceive the difference. |
| ~ label | distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions. |
| ~ label | distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom. |
| ~ sex | tell the sex (of young chickens). |
| ~ individualise, individualize | make or mark or treat as individual.; "The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ contrast | put in opposition to show or emphasize differences.; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student" |
| ~ severalise, severalize | distinguish or separate. |
| ~ contradistinguish | distinguish by contrasting qualities. |
| ~ decouple, dissociate | regard as unconnected.; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" |
| ~ demarcate | separate clearly, as if by boundaries. |
| ~ discriminate, single out, separate | treat differently on the basis of sex or race. |
| ~ stratify | divide society into social classes or castes.; "Income distribution often stratifies a society" |
| v. (social) | 6. carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up | separate into parts or portions.; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ subdivide | divide into smaller and smaller pieces.; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" |
| ~ initialise, initialize, format | divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data.; "Please format this disk before entering data!" |
| ~ sectionalise, sectionalize | divide into sections, especially into geographic sections.; "sectionalize a country" |
| ~ triangulate | divide into triangles or give a triangular form to.; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" |
| ~ unitise, unitize | divide (bulk material) and process as units. |
| ~ lot | divide into lots, as of land, for example. |
| ~ parcel | divide into parts.; "The developers parceled the land" |
| ~ sliver, splinter | divide into slivers or splinters. |
| ~ paragraph | divide into paragraphs, as of text.; "This story is well paragraphed" |
| ~ canton | divide into cantons, of a country. |
| ~ balkanise, balkanize | divide a territory into small, hostile states. |
| v. (contact) | 7. separate | divide into components or constituents.; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ decompose, break down, break up | separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts. |
| ~ dialyse, dialyze | separate by dialysis. |
| ~ peptise, peptize | disperse in a medium into a colloidal state. |
| ~ macerate | separate into constituents by soaking. |
| ~ card, tease | separate the fibers of.; "tease wool" |
| ~ filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain | remove by passing through a filter.; "filter out the impurities" |
| ~ extract | separate (a metal) from an ore. |
| ~ fractionate | obtain by a fractional process. |
| ~ fractionate | separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents. |
| ~ sift, sieve, strain | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements.; "sift the flour" |
| ~ wash | separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals). |
| ~ disperse | separate (light) into spectral rays.; "the prosm disperses light" |
| ~ avulse | separate by avulsion. |
| v. (cognition) | 8. 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" |
| v. (motion) | 9. divide, separate | make a division or separation. |
| ~ partition, zone | separate or apportion into sections.; "partition a room off" |
| ~ break | destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments.; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" |
| ~ break up, dissipate, scatter, dispel, disperse | to cause to separate and go in different directions.; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" |
| ~ rail off, rail | separate with a railing.; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace" |
| ~ detach | separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment.; "detach a regiment" |
| ~ close off, shut off | isolate or separate.; "She was shut off from the friends" |
| v. (social) | 10. break, break up, part, separate, split, split up | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
| ~ give the bounce, give the gate, give the axe | terminate a relationship abruptly.; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman" |
| ~ disunify, break apart | break up or separate.; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" |
| ~ disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce | part; cease or break association with.; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" |
| ~ break with | end a relationship.; "China broke with Russia" |
| ~ split up, divorce | get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage.; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" |
| ~ secede, splinter, break away | withdraw from an organization or communion.; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" |
| ~ break away, break | interrupt a continued activity.; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" |
| v. (motion) | 11. part, separate, split | go one's own way; move apart.; "The friends separated after the party" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ dissipate, scatter, disperse, spread out | move away from each other.; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached" |
| ~ break up | come apart.; "the group broke up" |
| ~ diffract | undergo diffraction.; "laser light diffracts electrons" |
| v. (change) | 12. break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ burst, break open, split | come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.; "The bubble burst" |
| ~ puncture | be pierced or punctured.; "The tire punctured" |
| ~ bust, burst | break open or apart suddenly and forcefully.; "The dam burst" |
| ~ smash | break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow.; "The window smashed" |
| ~ ladder, run | come unraveled or undone as if by snagging.; "Her nylons were running" |
| ~ break | destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments.; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" |
| ~ snap, crack | break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension.; "The pipe snapped" |
| ~ fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up | break or cause to break into pieces.; "The plate fragmented" |
| ~ crush | become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall" |
| v. (social) | 13. discriminate, separate, single out | treat differently on the basis of sex or race. |
| ~ isolate, insulate | place or set apart.; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" |
| ~ differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
| ~ hive off | remove from a group and make separate.; "The unit was hived off from its parent company" |
| ~ segregate | separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation.; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" |
| ~ redline | discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood. |
| ~ disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour | put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm.; "This rule clearly disadvantages me" |
| v. (contact) | 14. divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ subdivide | form into subdivisions.; "The cells subdivided" |
| ~ polarise, polarize | become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation. |
| ~ calve, break up | release ice.; "The icebergs and glaciers calve" |
| ~ chip, chip off, break away, break off, come off | break off (a piece from a whole).; "Her tooth chipped" |
| ~ disjoin, disjoint | become separated, disconnected or disjoint. |
| ~ come away, come off, detach | come to be detached.; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery" |
| ~ segregate | divide from the main body or mass and collect.; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate" |
| ~ segment | divide or split up.; "The cells segmented" |
| ~ reduce | undergo meiosis.; "The cells reduce" |
| ~ section, segment | divide into segments.; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" |
| ~ partition, partition off | divide into parts, pieces, or sections.; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British" |
| ~ discerp, dismember, take apart | divide into pieces.; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war" |
| ~ gerrymander | divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts. |
| v. (change) | 15. branch, fork, furcate, ramify, separate | divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.; "The road forks" |
| ~ branch, ramify | grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" |
| ~ arborise, arborize | branch out like trees.; "nerve fibers arborize" |
| ~ twig | branch out in a twiglike manner.; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions" |
| ~ bifurcate | divide into two branches.; "The road bifurcated" |
| ~ trifurcate | divide into three.; "The road trifurcates at the bridge" |
| ~ diverge | move or draw apart.; "The two paths diverge here" |
| adj. | 16. separate | independent; not united or joint.; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
| ~ individual, single | being or characteristic of a single thing or person.; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" |
| ~ independent | free from external control and constraint.; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism" |
| ~ segregated, unintegrated | separated or isolated from others or a main group.; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood" |
| ~ other | not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied.; "today isn't any other day"; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" |
| ~ apart | having characteristics not shared by others.; "scientists felt they were a group apart" |
| ~ asunder | widely separated especially in space.; "as wide asunder as pole from pole" |
| ~ separated, set-apart, detached, isolated | being or feeling set or kept apart from others.; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" |
| ~ discrete, distinct | constituting a separate entity or part.; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" |
| ~ disjoint | having no elements in common. |
| ~ disjunct, isolated | marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements.; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara" |
| ~ isolable | capable of being isolated or disjoined. |
| ~ unaccompanied | (of a state or an event) taking place without something specified occurring at the same time.; "a headache unaccompanied by other symptoms" |
| ~ unshared | not shared. |
| ~ divided | separated into parts or pieces.; "opinions are divided" |
| adj. | 17. freestanding, separate | standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything.; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" |
| ~ detached | used of buildings; standing apart from others.; "detached houses"; "a detached garage" |
| adj. | 18. separate | separated according to race, sex, class, or religion.; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" |
| ~ segregated, unintegrated | separated or isolated from others or a main group.; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood" |
| adj. | 19. disjoined, separate | have the connection undone; having become separate. |
| ~ unconnected | not joined or linked together. |
| lain | (v.) | lie |
| lie | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. lie, prevarication | a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth. |
| ~ falsehood, untruth, falsity | a false statement. |
| ~ fib, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tale, story | a trivial lie.; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" |
| ~ jactitation | (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law). |
| ~ whopper, walloper | a gross untruth; a blatant lie. |
| ~ white lie | an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite). |
| n. (person) | 2. lie, trygve halvden lie, trygve lie | Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968). |
| ~ diplomat, diplomatist | an official engaged in international negotiations. |
| n. (location) | 3. lie | position or manner in which something is situated. |
| ~ position, place | the particular portion of space occupied by something.; "he put the lamp back in its place" |
| v. (stative) | 4. lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ nestle | lie in a sheltered position.; "The little cottage nestles in the forest" |
| ~ intervene | be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events.; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened" |
| ~ top | be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point.; "A star tops the Christmas Tree" |
| ~ mediate | occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others.; "mediate between the old and the new" |
| ~ ride | lie moored or anchored.; "Ship rides at anchor" |
| ~ lap | lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another. |
| ~ focalise, focalize, localise, localize | concentrate on a particular place or spot.; "The infection has localized in the left eye" |
| ~ slant | lie obliquely.; "A scar slanted across his face" |
| ~ precede, predate | come before.; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify" |
| ~ underlie | lie underneath. |
| ~ cap, crest | lie at the top of.; "Snow capped the mountains" |
| ~ front, face, look | be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" |
| ~ back | be in back of.; "My garage backs their yard" |
| ~ flank | be located at the sides of something or somebody. |
| ~ head | be in the front of or on top of.; "The list was headed by the name of the president" |
| ~ overtop, command, overlook, dominate | look down on.; "The villa dominates the town" |
| ~ line, run along | be in line with; form a line along.; "trees line the riverbank" |
| ~ orient, point | be oriented.; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward" |
| ~ look across, look out on, look out over, overlook | be oriented in a certain direction.; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson" |
| ~ rest, lie | have a place in relation to something else.; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies" |
| v. (contact) | 5. lie | be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position.; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf" |
| ~ sun, sunbathe | expose one's body to the sun. |
| ~ sprawl | sit or lie with one's limbs spread out. |
| ~ recumb, recline, repose | lean in a comfortable resting position.; "He was reposing on the couch" |
| ~ overlie | lie upon; lie on top of.; "the granite overlies the older rocks" |
| ~ lie awake | lie without sleeping.; "She was so worried, she lay awake all night long" |
| ~ repose | lie when dead.; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum" |
| ~ bask | be exposed.; "The seals were basking in the sun" |
| ~ lie down, lie | assume a reclining position.; "lie down on the bed until you feel better" |
| ~ lie down, lie | assume a reclining position.; "lie down on the bed until you feel better" |
| v. (stative) | 6. consist, dwell, lie, lie in | originate (in).; "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" |
| ~ exist, be | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| v. (stative) | 7. lie | be and remain in a particular state or condition.; "lie dormant" |
| ~ 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. (communication) | 8. lie | tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive.; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29" |
| ~ misinform, mislead | give false or misleading information to. |
| ~ romance | tell romantic or exaggerated lies.; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country" |
| ~ perjure | knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury. |
| ~ fib | tell a relatively insignificant lie.; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying" |
| v. (stative) | 9. lie, rest | have a place in relation to something else.; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| v. (motion) | 10. lie, lie down | assume a reclining position.; "lie down on the bed until you feel better" |
| ~ lie | be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position.; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf" |
| ~ change posture | undergo a change in bodily posture. |
| ~ stretch out, stretch | lie down comfortably.; "To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass" |
| ~ charge | lie down on command, of hunting dogs. |
| ~ bow down, prostrate | get into a prostrate position, as in submission. |
| different | | |
| adj. | 1. different | unlike in nature or quality or form or degree.; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one" |
| ~ incompatible | not compatible.; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors" |
| ~ unlike, dissimilar, different | marked by dissimilarity.; "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different" |
| ~ antithetic, antithetical | sharply contrasted in character or purpose.; "practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs"; "hope is antithetic to despair" |
| ~ various, assorted | of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity.; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior" |
| ~ contrary | very opposed in nature or character or purpose.; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion" |
| ~ contrasting, contrastive | strikingly different; tending to contrast.; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors" |
| ~ diametric, diametrical, polar, opposite | characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed.; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" |
| ~ divergent | diverging from another or from a standard.; "a divergent opinion" |
| ~ disparate | fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind.; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas" |
| ~ distinct, distinguishable | (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality.; "plants of several distinct types"; "the word `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses"; "gold is distinct from iron"; "a tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech"; "management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees" |
| ~ diverse, various | distinctly dissimilar or unlike.; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" |
| ~ divers, diverse | many and different.; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" |
| ~ opposite | altogether different in nature or quality or significance.; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest" |
| ~ several | distinct and individual.; "three several times" |
| ~ variant | differing from a norm or standard.; "a variant spelling" |
| ~ dissimilar | not similar.; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem" |
| ~ varied | characterized by variety.; "immigrants' varied ethnic and religious traditions"; "his work is interesting and varied" |
| adj. | 2. different | distinctly separate from the first.; "that's another (or different) issue altogether" |
| ~ other | not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied.; "today isn't any other day"; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" |
| adj. | 3. different | differing from all others; not ordinary.; "advertising that strives continually to be different"; "this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it" |
| ~ unusual | not usual or common or ordinary.; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite" |
| adj. | 4. different, dissimilar, unlike | marked by dissimilarity.; "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different" |
| adj. | 5. different | distinct or separate.; "each interviewed different members of the community" |
| ~ other | not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied.; "today isn't any other day"; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" |
| distinct | | |
| adj. | 1. distinct, distinguishable | (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality.; "plants of several distinct types"; "the word `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses"; "gold is distinct from iron"; "a tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech"; "management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees" |
| ~ different | unlike in nature or quality or form or degree.; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one" |
| adj. | 2. distinct | easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined.; "a distinct flavor"; "a distinct odor of turpentine"; "a distinct outline"; "the ship appeared as a distinct silhouette"; "distinct fingerprints" |
| ~ clear | readily apparent to the mind.; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human nature" |
| ~ definite | precise; explicit and clearly defined.; "I want a definite answer"; "a definite statement of the terms of the will"; "a definite amount"; "definite restrictions on the sale of alcohol"; "the wedding date is now definite"; "a definite drop in attendance" |
| ~ chiseled, well-defined | having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges.; "a finely chiseled nose"; "well-defined features" |
| ~ clean-cut, clear-cut, clear | clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible.; "as clear as a whistle"; "clear footprints in the snow"; "the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather"; "a spire clean-cut against the sky"; "a clear-cut pattern" |
| ~ crisp, sharp | (of something seen or heard) clearly defined.; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot" |
| ~ crystalline | distinctly or sharply outlined.; "crystalline sharpness of outline" |
| ~ outlined, defined | showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary.; "hills defined against the evening sky"; "the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill" |
| ~ knifelike | having a sharp or distinct edge.; "a narrow knifelike profile" |
| ~ razor-sharp | very clearly delineated.; "razor-sharp definition" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 3. discrete, distinct | constituting a separate entity or part.; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" |
| ~ separate | independent; not united or joint.; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
| adj. | 4. decided, distinct | recognizable; marked.; "noticed a distinct improvement"; "at a distinct (or decided) disadvantage" |
| ~ definite | precise; explicit and clearly defined.; "I want a definite answer"; "a definite statement of the terms of the will"; "a definite amount"; "definite restrictions on the sale of alcohol"; "the wedding date is now definite"; "a definite drop in attendance" |
| adj. | 5. clear-cut, distinct, trenchant | clearly or sharply defined to the mind.; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong" |
| ~ clear | readily apparent to the mind.; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human nature" |
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