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Nouns (21)

n. a portion of something divided into shares; "they split the loot three ways"

n. any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out"

way

n. the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"

way

n. a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing"

way

n. a journey or passage; "they are on the way"

way

n. the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way"

direction, way

n. a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"

means, agency, way

n. how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success"

room, way, elbow room

n. space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"

way, path, way of life

n. a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"

give, spring, springiness

n. the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

Way

n. magazine

Verbs (24)

give

v. perform for an audience; "Pollini is giving another concert in New York"

give

v. emit or utter; "Give a gulp"; "give a yelp"

give

v. occur; "what gives?"

give

v. manifest or show; "This student gives promise of real creativity"; "The office gave evidence of tampering"

give

v. consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man; "She gave herself to many men"

give

v. propose; "He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party"

give

v. give (as medicine); "I gave him the drug"

give

v. proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"

give

v. cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold"

give

v. submit for consideration, judgment, or use; "give one's opinion"; "give an excuse"

give

v. guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion; "You gave me to think that you agreed with me"

give

v. present to view; "He gave the sign to start"

give, yield

v. cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory"

feed, give

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

grant, give

v. bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights"

give, leave with

v. leave with; give temporarily; "Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?"; "Can I give you the children for the weekend?"

impart, leave, give, pass on

v. transmit (knowledge or skills); "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students"

Adverbs (2)

way, right smart

adv. to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States); "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"

Adjectives (0)

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Fuzzynyms (108)

avenue, boulevard

n. a wide street or thoroughfare

passageway

n. a passage between rooms or between buildings

lift

n. a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"

proficiency, technique

n. skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency"

trail

n. a track or mark left by something that has passed; "there as a trail of blood"; "a tear left its trail on her cheek"

pathway, footpath

n. a trodden path

avenue, boulevard

n. a wide street or thoroughfare

tack

n. the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails

capacity

n. (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes"

adaptability

n. the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances

flexibility, flexibleness

n. the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped

confabulate

v. unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

recount

v. count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"

rehearse, practise, practice

v. engage in a rehearsal (of)

confabulate

v. unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

transcribe

v. write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

read, register, show, record

v. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

transliterate, transcribe

v. rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"

transcribe

v. make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"

place, put, set

v. estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

treat, care for

v. provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"

poultice, plaster

v. dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

transfer

v. move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital"

refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with

v. be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

confer, bestow

v. present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"

check

v. hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping; "Check your coat at the door"

leave, entrust

v. put into the care or protection of someone; "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care"

keep, look after, have charge of

v. look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"

keep, maintain

v. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"

predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego

v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"

crop, browse, graze, range, pasture

v. feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"

devour, down, consume, go through

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

devour, guttle, raven, pig

v. eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"

keep, maintain

v. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"

support

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

feed on, feed upon

v. be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

feed, feast

v. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

forage

v. wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"

leave, allow for, allow, provide

v. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

award, grant

v. give as judged due or on the basis of merit; "the referee awarded a free kick to the team"; "the jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff";"Funds are granted to qualified researchers"

accord, allot, grant

v. allow to have; "grant a privilege"

recount

v. count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"

convey, transmit, communicate

v. transfer to another; "communicate a disease"

spell

v. take turns working; "the workers spell every four hours"

show

v. finish third or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to show"

notably

adv. especially; in particular; "notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much"

incomparably, uncomparably

adv. in an incomparable manner or to an incomparable degree; "she is incomparably gifted"

Synonyms (6)

yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under

v. consent reluctantly

hand

v. guide or conduct or usher somewhere; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi"

Antonyms (3)

starve

v. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

deprive

v. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

quench

v. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"

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