| gunstock | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. gunstock, stock | the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun.; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock" |
| ~ artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance | large but transportable armament. |
| ~ gun | a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel). |
| ~ handgrip, handle, grip, hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" |
| ~ machine gun | a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted). |
| ~ handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arm | a firearm that is held and fired with one hand. |
| ~ pistol grip | a handle (as of a gun or saw) shaped like the butt of a pistol. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| batter | | |
| n. (person) | 1. batsman, batter, hitter, slugger | (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting. |
| ~ 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!" |
| ~ ballplayer, baseball player | an athlete who plays baseball. |
| ~ bunter | a batter who bunts. |
| ~ designated hitter | a ballplayer who is designated to bat in place of the pitcher. |
| ~ pinch hitter | (baseball) a substitute for the regular batter. |
| ~ switch-hitter | a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed. |
| ~ whiffer | a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike. |
| n. (food) | 2. batter | a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking. |
| ~ pate a choux, pouf paste, puff batter | batter for making light hollow cases to hold various fillings. |
| ~ pancake batter | batter for making pancakes. |
| ~ fritter batter | batter for making fritters. |
| ~ concoction, intermixture, mixture | any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients.; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade" |
| v. (contact) | 3. batter, buffet, knock about | strike against forcefully.; "Winds buffeted the tent" |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (contact) | 4. baste, batter, clobber | strike violently and repeatedly.; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| v. (change) | 5. batter, dinge | make a dent or impression in.; "dinge a soft hat" |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
| beat | | |
| n. (location) | 1. beat, round | a regular route for a sentry or policeman.; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" |
| ~ itinerary, route, path | an established line of travel or access. |
| n. (event) | 2. beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.; "he could feel the beat of her heart" |
| ~ periodic event, recurrent event | an event that recurs at intervals. |
| ~ diastole | the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood. |
| ~ systole | the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery. |
| ~ throbbing, pounding, throb | an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart).; "he felt a throbbing in his head" |
| n. (communication) | 3. beat, musical rhythm, rhythm | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| ~ downbeat | the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward). |
| ~ offbeat, upbeat | an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure). |
| ~ syncopation | a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat. |
| ~ musical time | (music) the beat of musical rhythm. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. beat | a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations. |
| ~ oscillation, vibration | (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean. |
| n. (person) | 5. beat, beatnik | a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. |
| ~ beat generation, beatniks, beats | a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop). |
| ~ recusant, nonconformist | someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct. |
| n. (event) | 6. beat | the sound of stroke or blow.; "he heard the beat of a drum" |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| n. (communication) | 7. beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. |
| ~ metrics, prosody | the study of poetic meter and the art of versification. |
| ~ poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification. |
| ~ catalexis | the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse. |
| ~ scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns. |
| ~ common meter, common measure | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad. |
| ~ metrical foot, metrical unit, foot | (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. |
| n. (attribute) | 8. beat | a regular rate of repetition.; "the cox raised the beat" |
| ~ pace, rate | the relative speed of progress or change.; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated" |
| n. (act) | 9. beat | a stroke or blow.; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" |
| ~ stroke | a single complete movement. |
| n. (act) | 10. beat | the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing. |
| ~ sailing | riding in a sailboat. |
| v. (competition) | 11. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ win | be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" |
| ~ outscore, outpoint | score more points than one's opponents. |
| ~ walk over | beat easily.; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" |
| ~ eliminate | remove from a contest or race.; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" |
| ~ worst, mop up, whip, pip, rack up | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| ~ whomp | beat overwhelmingly. |
| ~ get the best, have the best, overcome | overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.; "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
| ~ spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle | defeat disastrously. |
| ~ get the jump | be there first.; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" |
| ~ chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw | defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
| ~ outsmart, outwit, circumvent, outfox, overreach, beat | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| ~ defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| ~ surmount, master, overcome, get over, subdue | get on top of; deal with successfully.; "He overcame his shyness" |
| ~ best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump | get the better of.; "the goal was to best the competition" |
| ~ outfight | to fight better than; get the better of.; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" |
| ~ overmaster, overpower, overwhelm | overcome by superior force. |
| ~ checkmate, mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" |
| ~ immobilise, immobilize | make defenseless. |
| ~ outplay | excel or defeat in a game.; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" |
| ~ drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| v. (contact) | 12. beat, beat up, work over | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ strong-arm | use physical force against.; "They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant" |
| ~ soak | beat severely. |
| ~ pistol-whip | beat with a pistol. |
| ~ belabour, belabor | beat soundly. |
| ~ rough up | treat violently.; "The police strong-armed the suspect" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| ~ flog, lash, lather, trounce, welt, whip, slash, strap | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ cane, lambast, lambaste, flog | beat with a cane. |
| ~ kayo, knock cold, knock out | knock unconscious or senseless.; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds" |
| ~ flail, thrash, lam, thresh | give a thrashing to; beat hard. |
| ~ clobber, baste, batter | strike violently and repeatedly.; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" |
| ~ larrup, spank, paddle | give a spanking to; subject to a spanking. |
| v. (contact) | 13. beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| ~ full | beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening.; "full the cloth" |
| ~ beat | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| ~ beat | strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" |
| ~ beetle | beat with a beetle. |
| ~ bastinado | beat somebody on the soles of the feet. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| ~ coldcock, floor, knock down, deck, dump | knock down with force.; "He decked his opponent" |
| ~ whang | beat with force. |
| ~ paste | hit with the fists.; "He pasted his opponent" |
| ~ thresh, thrash | beat the seeds out of a grain. |
| ~ hammer | beat with or as if with a hammer.; "hammer the metal flat" |
| v. (motion) | 14. beat, pound, thump | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pulsate, pulse, throb | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" |
| ~ palpitate, flutter | beat rapidly.; "His heart palpitated" |
| ~ thrash | beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all. |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ flap | move noisily.; "flags flapped in the strong wind" |
| v. (creation) | 15. beat | shape by beating.; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
| ~ shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work | make something, usually for a specific function.; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" |
| ~ forge, hammer | create by hammering.; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" |
| v. (perception) | 16. beat, drum, thrum | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (perception) | 17. beat | glare or strike with great intensity.; "The sun was beating down on us" |
| ~ glare | shine intensely.; "The sun glared down on us" |
| v. (motion) | 18. beat, flap | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ flutter | flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements.; "The seagulls fluttered overhead" |
| ~ flap, beat | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| ~ bate | flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons. |
| ~ clap | cause to strike the air in flight.; "The big bird clapped its wings" |
| v. (motion) | 19. beat | sail with much tacking or with difficulty.; "The boat beat in the strong wind" |
| ~ navigation, pilotage, piloting | the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place. |
| ~ sail | travel on water propelled by wind.; "I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on" |
| v. (contact) | 20. beat, scramble | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ whisk, whip | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| ~ cream | make creamy by beating.; "Cream the butter" |
| ~ raise up, commove, disturb, stir up, vex, shake up, agitate | change the arrangement or position of. |
| v. (contact) | 21. beat | strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (stative) | 22. beat | be superior.; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
| ~ 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. (social) | 23. beat, bunk | avoid paying.; "beat the subway fare" |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| v. (perception) | 24. beat, tick, ticktack, ticktock | make a sound like a clock or a timer.; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (motion) | 25. beat, flap | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ flap, beat | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| ~ flail, thresh | move like a flail; thresh about.; "Her arms were flailing" |
| ~ clap | strike the air in flight.; "the wings of the birds clapped loudly" |
| v. (motion) | 26. beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ beat | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| ~ thump, beat, pound | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| ~ tap out, thump out, beat out | beat out a rhythm. |
| ~ drum, thrum, beat | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| v. (motion) | 27. beat, pulsate, quiver | move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pulsate, pulse, throb | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" |
| v. (creation) | 28. beat | make by pounding or trampling.; "beat a path through the forest" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ trample, tread | tread or stomp heavily or roughly.; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" |
| v. (creation) | 29. beat | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| ~ play | perform music on (a musical instrument).; "He plays the flute"; "Can you play on this old recorder?" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| v. (contact) | 30. beat | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| v. (competition) | 31. beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| v. (cognition) | 32. amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex | be a mystery or bewildering to.; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
| ~ stump, mix up | cause to be perplexed or confounded.; "This problem stumped her" |
| ~ befuddle, confound, bedevil, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
| ~ riddle | set a difficult problem or riddle.; "riddle me a riddle" |
| ~ elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
| v. (body) | 33. beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| ~ fag out, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, fag, wear | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| ~ frazzle | exhaust physically or emotionally.; "She was frazzled after the visit of her in-laws" |
| ~ play | exhaust by allowing to pull on the line.; "play a hooked fish" |
| ~ kill | tire out completely.; "The daily stress of her work is killing her" |
| adj. | 34. all in, beat, bushed, dead | very tired.; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ tired | depleted of strength or energy.; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" |
| maul | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. maul, sledge, sledgehammer | a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges. |
| ~ hammer | a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking. |
| v. (contact) | 2. maul | split (wood) with a maul and wedges. |
| ~ cleave, rive, split | separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.; "cleave the bone" |
| v. (contact) | 3. mangle, maul | injure badly by beating. |
| ~ injure, wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
| ~ mar, mutilate | destroy or injure severely.; "mutilated bodies" |
| ~ blemish, deface, disfigure | mar or spoil the appearance of.; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue" |
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