| barrage | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. barrage, bombardment, onslaught, outpouring | the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written).; "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" |
| ~ language, linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols.; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" |
| n. (act) | 2. barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" |
| ~ firing, fire | the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy.; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" |
| v. (communication) | 3. barrage, bombard | address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage.; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer" |
| ~ lash out, attack, assail, assault, snipe, round | attack in speech or writing.; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" |
| redo | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. make over, redo, refashion, remake | make new.; "She is remaking her image" |
| ~ produce, create, make | create or manufacture a man-made product.; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
| ~ reforge, remodel, recast | cast or model anew.; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state" |
| v. (change) | 2. reconstruct, redo, remodel | do over, as of (part of) a house.; "We are remodeling these rooms" |
| ~ 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" |
| okay | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. o.k., ok, okay, okeh, okey | an endorsement.; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead" |
| ~ imprimatur, sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant | formal and explicit approval.; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" |
| v. (communication) | 2. approve, o.k., okay, sanction | give sanction to.; "I approve of his educational policies" |
| ~ authorize, authorise, clear, pass | grant authorization or clearance for.; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" |
| ~ sanction | give religious sanction to, such as through on oath.; "sanctify the marriage" |
| ~ visa | approve officially.; "The list of speakers must be visaed" |
| ~ back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support | be behind; approve of.; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" |
| ~ confirm | support a person for a position.; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense" |
| adj. | 3. all right, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay | being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ satisfactory | giving satisfaction.; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" |
| adv. | 4. all right, alright, o.k., okay | in a satisfactory or adequate manner.; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
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