| 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. |
| bar | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom | a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" |
| ~ barrelhouse, honky-tonk | a cheap drinking and dancing establishment. |
| ~ cocktail lounge | a barroom in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served. |
| ~ gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, taphouse, saloon | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals. |
| ~ room | an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling.; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" |
| ~ sawdust saloon | a saloon whose floor is covered with sawdust. |
| ~ speakeasy | (during prohibition) an illegal barroom. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. bar | a counter where you can obtain food or drink.; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" |
| ~ cash bar | a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass. |
| ~ counter | table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted. |
| ~ oyster bar | a bar (as in a restaurant) that specializes in oysters prepared in different ways. |
| ~ salad bar | a bar where diners can assemble a salad to their own taste. |
| ~ snack bar, snack counter, buffet | usually inexpensive bar. |
| ~ soda fountain | a counter where ice cream and sodas and sundaes are prepared and served. |
| ~ sushi bar | a bar where sushi is served. |
| ~ wet bar | a bar for mixing drinks that has a sink with running water. |
| ~ wine bar | a bar that serves only wine. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bar | a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon.; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" |
| ~ belaying pin | a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing). |
| ~ deadbolt, bolt | the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key. |
| ~ bolt | a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech. |
| ~ carpenter's level | a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it. |
| ~ chinning bar | a horizontal bar on which you can chin yourself. |
| ~ core | a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil. |
| ~ crossbar | a horizontal bar that goes across something. |
| ~ drawbar | a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled. |
| ~ fret | a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch. |
| ~ grab bar | a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying yourself. |
| ~ handlebar | the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle. |
| ~ handspike | a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever. |
| ~ heaver | a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope). |
| ~ implement | instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end. |
| ~ lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum. |
| ~ rail | a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal). |
| ~ rotor | the revolving bar of a distributor. |
| ~ shackle | a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar. |
| ~ slice bar | iron bar used to loosen and rake clinkers out of furnaces. |
| ~ anti-sway bar, stabilizer bar | a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks; serves to stabilize the chassis. |
| ~ towel bar, towel rail | a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels. |
| ~ rails, runway, rail, track | a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll. |
| n. (communication) | 4. bar, measure | musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats.; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" |
| ~ musical notation | (music) notation used by musicians. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. bar | an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal.; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" |
| ~ goal | game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points. |
| ~ impedimenta, obstruction, impediment, obstructer, obstructor | any structure that makes progress difficult. |
| n. (act) | 6. bar, prevention | the act of preventing.; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" |
| ~ interference, hinderance, hindrance | the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding. |
| ~ averting | the act of preventing something from occurring.; "averting danger was his responsibility" |
| ~ debarment | the act of prevention by legal means.; "they achieved his debarment from holding public office" |
| ~ disqualification | the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified. |
| ~ interception | the act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving.; "he resorted to the interception of his daughter's letters"; "he claimed that the interception of one missile by another would be impossible" |
| ~ non-proliferation, nonproliferation | the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons).; "they protested that the nonproliferation treaty was just a plot to maintain the hegemony of those who already had nuclear weapons"; "nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation are closely related goals" |
| ~ forestalling, obviation, preclusion | the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively. |
| ~ prophylaxis | the prevention of disease. |
| ~ save | (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring.; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save" |
| ~ crushing, quelling, stifling, suppression | forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority.; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" |
| n. (quantity) | 7. bar | (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter.; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" |
| ~ meteorology | the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather). |
| ~ pressure unit | a unit measuring force per unit area. |
| ~ millibar | a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar.; "atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 millibars" |
| ~ bar absolute, barye, microbar | the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter. |
| n. (object) | 8. bar | a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore.; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" |
| ~ barrier | anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access. |
| ~ ridge | a long narrow natural elevation or striation. |
| ~ sand bar, sandbar | a bar of sand. |
| n. (group) | 9. bar, legal community, legal profession | the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" |
| ~ profession | the body of people in a learned occupation.; "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (attribute) | 10. bar, streak, stripe | a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" |
| ~ marking | a pattern of marks. |
| ~ banding, stria, striation, band | a stripe or stripes of contrasting color.; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" |
| n. (artifact) | 11. bar, cake | a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).; "a bar of chocolate" |
| ~ block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides).; "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" |
| ~ tablet | a small flat compressed cake of some substance.; "a tablet of soap" |
| n. (artifact) | 12. bar, browning automatic rifle | a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War. |
| ~ automatic, automatic rifle, machine rifle | light machine gun. |
| n. (artifact) | 13. bar | a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises. |
| ~ high bar, horizontal bar | gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends. |
| ~ bars, parallel bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| n. (artifact) | 14. bar | a heating element in an electric fire.; "an electric fire with three bars" |
| ~ heating element | the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat. |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| n. (artifact) | 15. bar | (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried.; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" |
| ~ courtroom, court | a room in which a lawcourt sits.; "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom" |
| ~ rail, railing | a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| v. (communication) | 16. bar, debar, exclude | prevent from entering; keep out.; "He was barred from membership in the club" |
| ~ disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, interdict, veto | command against.; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" |
| v. (contact) | 17. bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop | render unsuitable for passage.; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ block off, close off, shut off | block off the passage through.; "We shut off the valve" |
| ~ close | bar access to.; "Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours" |
| ~ obstruct, block | shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight.; "The thick curtain blocked the action on the stage"; "The trees obstruct my view of the mountains" |
| v. (social) | 18. banish, bar, relegate | expel, as if by official decree.; "he was banished from his own country" |
| ~ expel, kick out, throw out | force to leave or move out.; "He was expelled from his native country" |
| ~ spike | stand in the way of. |
| v. (contact) | 19. bar | secure with, or as if with, bars.; "He barred the door" |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| break off | | |
| v. (change) | 1. break off, break short, cut short | interrupt before its natural or planned end.; "We had to cut short our vacation" |
| ~ hang up | interrupt a telephone conversation. |
| ~ break, interrupt | terminate.; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" |
| v. (change) | 2. break, break off, discontinue, stop | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| ~ fracture | become fractured.; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| ~ bog down, bog | get stuck while doing something.; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" |
| ~ cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| v. (contact) | 3. break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off | break off (a piece from a whole).; "Her tooth chipped" |
| ~ flake off, peel, flake, peel off | come off in flakes or thin small pieces.; "The paint in my house is peeling off" |
| ~ exfoliate | come off in a very thin piece. |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| v. (contact) | 4. break, break off, snap off | break a piece from a whole.; "break a branch from a tree" |
| ~ detach | cause to become detached or separated; take off.; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" |
| v. (contact) | 5. break off, chip, cut off, knap | break a small piece off from.; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| howl | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. howl, howling, ululation | a long loud emotional utterance.; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect" |
| ~ utterance, vocalization | the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication. |
| n. (event) | 2. howl | the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf. |
| ~ cry | the characteristic utterance of an animal.; "animal cries filled the night" |
| n. (event) | 3. howl | a loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound.; "the howl of the wind made him restless" |
| ~ noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).; "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" |
| ~ squeal | a high-pitched howl. |
| v. (communication) | 4. howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl | emit long loud cries.; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow" |
| ~ cry, scream, shout out, yell, holler, shout, squall, hollo, call | utter a sudden loud cry.; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" |
| ~ squall, waul, wawl | make high-pitched, whiney noises. |
| v. (communication) | 5. howl, wrawl, yammer, yowl | cry loudly, as of animals.; "The coyotes were howling in the desert" |
| ~ let loose, let out, utter, emit | express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words).; "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" |
| v. (communication) | 6. howl, roar | make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles.; "The wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the chute" |
| ~ vroom | make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving. |
| ~ yawp, bawl | make a raucous noise. |
| ~ thunder | to make or produce a loud noise.; "The river thundered below"; "The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle" |
| ~ make noise, noise, resound | emit a noise. |
| v. (body) | 7. howl, roar | laugh unrestrainedly and heartily. |
| ~ express joy, express mirth, laugh | produce laughter. |
| ululate | | |
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