| attendee | | |
| n. (person) | 1. attendant, attendee, attender, meeter | a person who is present and participates in a meeting.; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" |
| ~ conventioneer | someone who attends a convention. |
| ~ participant | someone who takes part in an activity. |
| ~ partygoer | someone who is attending a party.; "the hall was crowded with an overflow of partygoers" |
| ~ symposiast | someone who participates in a symposium. |
| audience | | |
| n. (group) | 1. audience | a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance.; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough" |
| ~ assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| ~ gallery | spectators at a golf or tennis match. |
| ~ grandstand | the audience at a stadium or racetrack. |
| ~ house | the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema.; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house" |
| ~ attender, auditor, hearer, listener | someone who listens attentively. |
| ~ motion-picture fan, moviegoer | someone who goes to see movies. |
| ~ playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer | someone who attends the theater. |
| n. (group) | 2. audience | the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment.; "every artist needs an audience"; "the broadcast reached an audience of millions" |
| ~ populace, public, world | people in general considered as a whole.; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public" |
| ~ hoi polloi, masses, the great unwashed, multitude, people, mass | the common people generally.; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" |
| ~ readership | the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.). |
| ~ tv audience, viewers, viewing audience | the audience reached by television. |
| n. (state) | 3. audience, hearing | an opportunity to state your case and be heard.; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience" |
| ~ chance, opportunity | a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances.; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance" |
| n. (communication) | 4. audience, consultation, interview | a conference (usually with someone important).; "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" |
| ~ group discussion, conference | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic. |
| delegate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. delegate | a person appointed or elected to represent others. |
| ~ apostolic delegate | (Roman Catholic Church) a representative of the Holy See in a country that has no formal diplomatic relations with it. |
| ~ representative | a person who represents others. |
| v. (social) | 2. delegate, depute | transfer power to someone. |
| ~ assign, delegate, designate, depute | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| v. (social) | 3. assign, delegate, depute, designate | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| ~ mandate | assign authority to. |
| ~ cast | select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.; "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona" |
| ~ post | assign to a post; put into a post.; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu" |
| ~ cast | assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors.; "Who cast this beautiful movie?" |
| ~ devolve | pass on or delegate to another.; "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital" |
| ~ task | assign a task to.; "I tasked him with looking after the children" |
| ~ place | place somebody in a particular situation or location.; "he was placed on probation" |
| ~ regiment | assign to a regiment.; "regiment soldiers" |
| ~ reassign, transfer | transfer somebody to a different position or location of work. |
| ~ delegate, depute | transfer power to someone. |
| ~ mandate | assign under a mandate.; "mandate a colony" |
| ~ elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade, advance, raise | give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" |
| ~ demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" |
| ~ appoint, charge | assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" |
| ~ place | assign to (a job or a home). |
| turn out | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. prove, turn out, turn up | be shown or be found to be.; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ ensue, result | issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end.; "result in tragedy" |
| v. (stative) | 2. turn out | prove to be in the result or end.; "It turns out that he was right" |
| ~ 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. (creation) | 3. turn out | produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.; "This factory turns out saws" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (stative) | 4. come out, turn out | result or end.; "How will the game turn out?" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| ~ eventuate | come out in the end. |
| ~ work out | happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well.; "Things worked out in an interesting way"; "Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed" |
| v. (change) | 5. turn out | come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons.; "How many people turned out that evening?" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| v. (creation) | 6. bear, turn out | bring forth,.; "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" |
| ~ spin off | produce as a consequence of something larger. |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ seed | bear seeds. |
| ~ crop | yield crops.; "This land crops well" |
| ~ overbear | bear too much. |
| ~ fruit | bear fruit.; "the trees fruited early this year" |
| v. (contact) | 7. boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out, turn out | put out or expel from a place.; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" |
| ~ evict, force out | expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months" |
| ~ evict | expel or eject without recourse to legal process.; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." |
| ~ show the door | ask to leave.; "I was shown the door when I asked for a raise" |
| ~ bounce | eject from the premises.; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club" |
| ~ exorcise, exorcize | expel through adjuration or prayers.; "exorcise evil spirits" |
| ~ expel, kick out, throw out | force to leave or move out.; "He was expelled from his native country" |
| v. (social) | 8. turn out | come and gather for a public event.; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (possession) | 9. turn out | outfit or equip, as with accessories.; "The actors were turned out lavishly" |
| ~ equip, fit out, outfit, fit | provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" |
| v. (motion) | 10. rotate, splay, spread out, turn out | turn outward.; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" |
| ~ turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" |
| v. (contact) | 11. cut, switch off, turn off, turn out | cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" |
| ~ kill | cause to cease operating.; "kill the engine" |
| ~ flip, switch, throw | cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever" |
| v. (body) | 12. arise, get up, rise, turn out, uprise | get up and out of bed.; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" |
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