Related Words:
- ground swell
collapse - a broad and deep undulation of the ocean
- an obvious change of public opinion or political sentiment that occurs without leadership or overt expression; "there was a ground swell of antiwar sentiment" related words >
- billow,
- bore,
- breakers,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- coalition,
- comb,
- comber,
- communist front,
- dirty water,
- eagre,
- front,
- grass-roots movement,
- gravity wave,
- heave,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- lift,
- lop,
- movement,
- peak,
- political front,
- popple,
- popular front,
- riffle,
- ripple,
- rise,
- roll,
- roller,
- rough water,
- scend,
- sea,
- send,
- surf,
- surge,
- swell,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide wave,
- trough,
- tsunami,
- undulation,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- white horses,
- whitecaps
- affiliation,
- apparentation,
- birth,
- blood,
- branch,
- breed,
- common ancestry,
- consanguinity,
- derivation,
- descent,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- filiation,
- house,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- male line,
- phylum,
- race,
- seed,
- sept,
- side,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- succession,
- sword side
- L,
- branch,
- cable railway,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- metro,
- monorail,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- street railway,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground
- main line
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- the principal route of a transportation system related words >
- L,
- branch,
- cable railway,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- metro,
- monorail,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground
- railway
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- line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight related words >
- L,
- branch,
- cable railway,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- metro,
- monorail,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- train,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground
- above,
- aforetime,
- ahead,
- ahead of time,
- already,
- ante,
- before all,
- before now,
- beforehand,
- beforetime,
- betimes,
- by choice,
- by election,
- by vote,
- confronting,
- earlier,
- early,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- erewhile,
- erst,
- erstwhile,
- facing,
- first,
- fore,
- foremost,
- foresightedly,
- formerly,
- forward,
- headmost,
- hereinabove,
- hereinbefore,
- heretofore,
- historically,
- hitherto,
- in advance,
- in advance of,
- in anticipation,
- in anticipation of,
- in front,
- in front of,
- in preference,
- in preference to,
- in preparation for,
- in the forefront,
- in the foreground,
- in the front,
- in the future,
- in the lead,
- in the past,
- in times past,
- once,
- only yesterday,
- or ever,
- preceding,
- precociously,
- preferably,
- prehistorically,
- previous,
- previous to,
- previously,
- prior to,
- priorly,
- rather,
- rather than,
- recently,
- sooner,
- sooner than,
- supra,
- then,
- theretofore,
- till,
- to,
- to come,
- to the fore,
- to the front,
- until,
- up ahead,
- up to,
- whilom,
- yesterday,
- yet
- antecede,
- be in front,
- be responsible for,
- be the front-runner,
- break ground,
- break the ice,
- call the signals,
- captain,
- caption,
- carry on,
- come before,
- come first,
- command,
- conduct,
- control,
- create,
- direct,
- engineer,
- forge ahead,
- front,
- go ahead of,
- go before,
- go in advance,
- govern,
- handle,
- have priority,
- head,
- head the table,
- headline,
- initiate,
- invent,
- kick off,
- lead,
- lead off,
- lead on,
- lead the way,
- make the rules,
- manage,
- maneuver,
- manipulate,
- mastermind,
- officer,
- order,
- originate,
- outrank,
- pioneer,
- precede,
- prescribe,
- pull the strings,
- quarterback,
- rank,
- rate,
- regulate,
- run,
- skipper,
- stand first,
- stand in front,
- subhead,
- subtitle,
- take command,
- take precedence,
- take the initiative,
- take the lead,
- take the plunge,
- title,
- usher in
- priority
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- preceding in time related words >
- accent,
- accomplishment,
- antecedence,
- antecedency,
- anteposition,
- anteriority,
- arrangement,
- ascendancy,
- authority,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- concern,
- concernment,
- consequence,
- consequentiality,
- consideration,
- deanship,
- display,
- dominion,
- eminence,
- emphasis,
- excellence,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- favor,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foregoing,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front position,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- greatness,
- head,
- heading,
- high order,
- high rank,
- immediacy,
- import,
- importance,
- incomparability,
- influence,
- influentialness,
- inimitability,
- interest,
- lap,
- le pas,
- lead,
- leading,
- majority,
- mark,
- materiality,
- merit,
- moment,
- note,
- obverse,
- one-upmanship,
- order,
- ordering,
- paramountcy,
- precedence,
- precedency,
- preceding,
- precession,
- precursor,
- predominance,
- predomination,
- preeminence,
- preface,
- preference,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- prelude,
- preponderance,
- prepotence,
- prepotency,
- prerogative,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- primacy,
- privilege,
- prominence,
- proscenium,
- prothesis,
- rank,
- right,
- right-of-way,
- self-importance,
- seniority,
- significance,
- skill,
- stature,
- stress,
- success,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- the lead,
- top priority,
- transcendence,
- transcendency,
- urgency,
- value,
- van,
- virtuosity,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- window dressing,
- worth
- affiliation,
- air line,
- apparentation,
- axis,
- beeline,
- birth,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- branch,
- breed,
- chord,
- common ancestry,
- consanguinity,
- derivation,
- descent,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- directrix,
- distaff side,
- edge,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- filiation,
- great-circle course,
- house,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- male line,
- normal,
- perpendicular,
- phylum,
- race,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- right line,
- secant,
- seed,
- segment,
- sept,
- shortcut,
- side,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- strain,
- streamline,
- succession,
- sword side,
- tangent,
- transversal,
- vector
- facet
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- a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone) related words >
- angle,
- anteriority,
- article,
- aspect,
- bold front,
- border,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- case,
- circumference,
- configuration,
- cortex,
- count,
- covering,
- crust,
- datum,
- detail,
- display,
- effect,
- eidolon,
- element,
- envelope,
- epidermis,
- exterior,
- external,
- facade,
- face,
- facia,
- fact,
- factor,
- fashion,
- feature,
- figure,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- form,
- fringe,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gestalt,
- guise,
- hand,
- head,
- heading,
- image,
- imago,
- impression,
- incidental,
- instance,
- integument,
- item,
- lap,
- light,
- likeness,
- lineaments,
- look,
- manner,
- matter,
- minor detail,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- obverse,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outside,
- particular,
- periphery,
- phase,
- phasis,
- point,
- preface,
- prefix,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- reference,
- regard,
- respect,
- rind,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- shape,
- shell,
- side,
- simulacrum,
- skin,
- slant,
- style,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- thing,
- top,
- total effect,
- twist,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- window dressing,
- wise
- cable
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- a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- a television system that transmits over cables
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a telegram sent abroad
- a nautical unit of depth
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- fasten with a cable; "cable trees" related words >
- BX cable,
- Teletype,
- WATS,
- WATS line,
- armored cable,
- battery cable,
- bell wire,
- braid,
- brail,
- cablegram,
- chain,
- co-ax,
- coaxial cable,
- concentric cable,
- cord,
- day letter,
- electric cable,
- electric cord,
- fast telegram,
- flash,
- guy,
- hawser,
- highline,
- hookup wire,
- lead,
- ligament,
- ligation,
- ligature,
- line,
- mooring,
- night letter,
- party line,
- power line,
- private line,
- radio,
- radiogram,
- rope,
- send a wire,
- sign off,
- sign on,
- spun yarn,
- strand,
- string,
- telegram,
- telegraph,
- telegraph cable,
- telegraph line,
- telephone line,
- telex,
- tendon,
- thong,
- three-wire cable,
- transmission line,
- triaxial cable,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- twine,
- twist,
- underground cable,
- wire,
- wire line,
- yarn
- threshold
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- the smallest detectable sensation
- the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood" related words >
- French door,
- archway,
- back door,
- barway,
- beginning,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- brink,
- bulkhead,
- carriage entrance,
- ceiling,
- cellar door,
- cellarway,
- circumscription,
- commencement,
- compass,
- confine,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- dawn,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- door,
- doorjamb,
- doorpost,
- doorsill,
- doorstep,
- doorstone,
- doorway,
- edge,
- end,
- entrance,
- entrance hall,
- entranceway,
- entry,
- entryway,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- foyer,
- front door,
- frontier,
- galilee,
- gate,
- gatepost,
- gateway,
- groundsel,
- hatch,
- hatchway,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- lintel,
- lobby,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- mudsill,
- narthex,
- outset,
- point,
- porch,
- portal,
- porte cochere,
- portico,
- postern,
- propylaeum,
- pylon,
- scuttle,
- side door,
- sill,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stile,
- stoa,
- storm door,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- time allotment,
- tollgate,
- trap,
- trap door,
- turnpike,
- turnstile,
- upper limit,
- verge,
- vestibule,
- window sill
- L,
- branch,
- cable railway,
- chevron,
- cog railway,
- crankiness,
- crookedness,
- dogleg,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- flexuosity,
- gravity-operated railway,
- hairpin,
- horse railway,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- metro,
- monorail,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag,
- zigzaggery
- rectilinear
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- characterized by a straight line or lines; "rectilinear patterns in wallpaper"; "the rectilinear propagation of light" related words >
- arrowlike,
- dead straight,
- direct,
- even,
- flat,
- horizontal,
- in a line,
- level,
- lineal,
- linear,
- rectilineal,
- right,
- ruler-straight,
- smooth,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- streamlined,
- true,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- uncurved,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- uninterrupted,
- unswerving,
- unturned,
- upright,
- vertical
- unbent
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- not bent; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber" related words >
- arrowlike,
- dead straight,
- direct,
- even,
- flat,
- horizontal,
- in a line,
- level,
- lineal,
- linear,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- right,
- ruler-straight,
- smooth,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- streamlined,
- true,
- unbending,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- uncurved,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- uninterrupted,
- unswerving,
- unturned,
- upright,
- vertical
- ahead
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- at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before"
- ahead of time; in anticipation; "when you pay ahead (or in advance) you receive a discount"; "We like to plan ahead"; "should have made reservations beforehand"
- in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"
- leading or ahead in a competition; "the horse was three lengths ahead going into the home stretch"; "ahead by two pawns"; "our candidate is in the lead in the polls"; "way out front in the race"; "the advertising campaign put them out front in sales"
- to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future); "moved the appointment ahead from Tuesday to Monday"; "pushed the deadline ahead from Tuesday to Wednesday"
- to a more advanced or advantageous position; "a young man sure to get ahead"; "pushing talented students ahead"
- toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you" related words >
- a cut above,
- above,
- ahead of time,
- alee,
- along,
- ante,
- ascendant,
- before,
- beforehand,
- beforetime,
- betimes,
- better,
- capping,
- chosen,
- distinguished,
- early,
- eclipsing,
- eminent,
- en route to,
- exceeding,
- excellent,
- excelling,
- finer,
- first,
- for,
- fore,
- foremost,
- foresightedly,
- forth,
- forward,
- forwards,
- greater,
- headmost,
- higher,
- in advance,
- in anticipation,
- in ascendancy,
- in front,
- in the ascendant,
- in the forefront,
- in the foreground,
- in the front,
- in the lead,
- major,
- marked,
- of choice,
- on,
- one up on,
- onward,
- onwards,
- outstanding,
- over,
- precociously,
- previous,
- rare,
- rivaling,
- super,
- superior,
- surpassing,
- to the fore,
- to the front,
- topping,
- transcendent,
- transcendental,
- transcending,
- up ahead,
- upper,
- winning
- horizontal
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- something that is oriented horizontally
- parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface" related words >
- arrowlike,
- billiard table,
- bowling green,
- dead flat,
- dead level,
- dead straight,
- direct,
- earth,
- esplanade,
- even,
- flat,
- flatland,
- flattened,
- floor,
- flush,
- ground,
- homaloid,
- homaloidal,
- horizontal axis,
- horizontal fault,
- horizontal line,
- horizontal parallax,
- horizontal plane,
- horizontal projection,
- in a line,
- ledge,
- level,
- level line,
- level plane,
- lineal,
- linear,
- mean sea level,
- parterre,
- plain,
- plane,
- platform,
- prairie,
- prone,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- right,
- rolled,
- ruler-straight,
- sea level,
- sea of grass,
- smooth,
- smoothed out,
- smoothened,
- squashed,
- squashed flat,
- steppe,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- streamlined,
- supine,
- table,
- tabloid,
- tabular,
- terrace,
- trodden,
- trodden flat,
- true,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- uncurved,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- uninterrupted,
- unswerving,
- unturned,
- upright,
- vertical,
- water level
- beeline
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- the most direct route; "he made a beeline for the bathroom" related words >
- air line,
- axis,
- chord,
- cut,
- cutoff,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- edge,
- great-circle course,
- normal,
- perpendicular,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- right line,
- secant,
- segment,
- shortcut,
- shortest way,
- side,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- streamline,
- tangent,
- transversal,
- vector
- agent,
- connection,
- deputy,
- entrepreneur,
- front,
- front man,
- go-between,
- interagent,
- interceder,
- intercessor,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermediate agent,
- intermedium,
- internuncio,
- intervener,
- interventionist,
- interventor,
- mediator,
- medium,
- middleman,
- mouthpiece,
- negotiant,
- negotiator,
- negotiatress,
- negotiatrix,
- ombudsman,
- spokesman,
- spokeswoman
- tram
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- travel by tram related words >
- L,
- branch,
- cable railway,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric,
- electric car,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- metro,
- monorail,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- street railway,
- streetcar,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tramcar,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley,
- trolley car,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground
- foremost
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- preceding all others in spatial position; "the foremost compartment of the ship"
- situated closest to the bow; "the foremost compartment of the ship"
- prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost" related words >
- ahead,
- all-absorbing,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- arch,
- banner,
- before,
- best,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chief,
- controlling,
- crowning,
- dominant,
- exordial,
- first,
- firstly,
- focal,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- forehand,
- forward,
- front,
- frontal,
- great,
- head,
- heading,
- headmost,
- hegemonic,
- highest,
- in advance,
- in front,
- in the forefront,
- in the foreground,
- in the front,
- in the lead,
- inaugural,
- initial,
- initiatory,
- leading,
- magisterial,
- maiden,
- main,
- master,
- notable,
- noted,
- noteworthy,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- paramount,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- predominant,
- preeminent,
- prefatory,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- premier,
- preparatory,
- preponderant,
- prevailing,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primarily,
- primary,
- prime,
- principal,
- prior,
- proemial,
- prominent,
- propaedeutic,
- ranking,
- ruling,
- sovereign,
- star,
- stellar,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- supreme,
- to the fore,
- to the front,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- up ahead,
- uppermost
- trestle
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- sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
- a supporting tower used to support a bridge related words >
- L,
- branch,
- buck,
- cable railway,
- clotheshorse,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse,
- horse railway,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- metro,
- monorail,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sawbuck,
- sawhorse,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle and table,
- trestle board,
- trestle table,
- trestlework,
- trestling,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground,
- workhorse
- unbowed
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- not forced to bow down to a conqueror related words >
- arrowlike,
- dead straight,
- direct,
- even,
- flat,
- horizontal,
- in a line,
- level,
- lineal,
- linear,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- right,
- ruler-straight,
- smooth,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- streamlined,
- true,
- unbeaten,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unbroken,
- unconquered,
- uncurved,
- undefeated,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- uninterrupted,
- unquelled,
- unsubdued,
- unswerving,
- unturned,
- unvanquished,
- upright,
- vertical
- acmatic,
- ahead,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- apical,
- arch,
- banner,
- before,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chief,
- consummate,
- crowning,
- dominant,
- exordial,
- first,
- focal,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- forehand,
- foremost,
- forward,
- front,
- frontal,
- great,
- head,
- heading,
- hegemonic,
- highest,
- in advance,
- in front,
- in the forefront,
- in the foreground,
- in the front,
- in the lead,
- inaugural,
- initiatory,
- leading,
- magisterial,
- main,
- master,
- maximal,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- meridional,
- overmost,
- overruling,
- paramount,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- predominant,
- preeminent,
- prefatory,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- preparatory,
- preponderant,
- prevailing,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- principal,
- prior,
- proemial,
- propaedeutic,
- ranking,
- ruling,
- sovereign,
- star,
- stellar,
- summital,
- supereminent,
- supreme,
- tip-top,
- to the fore,
- to the front,
- top,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- ultimate,
- up ahead,
- upmost,
- uppermost,
- vertical,
- zenithal
- Plimsoll line,
- Plimsoll mark,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- interface,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- load waterline,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- tidemark,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- waterline,
- watermark
- secant
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- ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points related words >
- air line,
- axis,
- beeline,
- chiasmal,
- chiasmic,
- chiastic,
- chord,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- crosscut,
- crossed,
- crossing,
- cut across,
- decussate,
- decussated,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- edge,
- great-circle course,
- intersected,
- intersecting,
- normal,
- perpendicular,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- right line,
- segment,
- shortcut,
- side,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- streamline,
- tangent,
- transversal,
- vector
- prefix
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- an affix that is added in front of the word
- attach a prefix to; "prefixed words" related words >
- IC analysis,
- accidence,
- add,
- adjoin,
- affix,
- affixation,
- agglutinate,
- allomorph,
- allonge,
- annex,
- anteriority,
- append,
- appendix,
- attach,
- avant-propos,
- bold front,
- bound morpheme,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- breakthrough,
- burden,
- coda,
- codicil,
- commentary,
- complicate,
- conjoin,
- conjugation,
- cutting,
- declension,
- decorate,
- derivation,
- difference of form,
- display,
- enclitic,
- encumber,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- exordium,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- formative,
- free form,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- glue on,
- head,
- heading,
- hitch on,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- innovation,
- interlineation,
- interpolation,
- introduce,
- introduction,
- join with,
- lap,
- leap,
- marginalia,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- note,
- obverse,
- ornament,
- overture,
- paradigm,
- paste on,
- plus,
- postfix,
- postscript,
- postulate,
- preamble,
- preface,
- prefixation,
- prefixture,
- preliminary,
- prelude,
- premise,
- presupposition,
- priority,
- proclitic,
- proem,
- prolegomena,
- prolegomenon,
- prolepsis,
- prologize,
- prologue,
- proscenium,
- protasis,
- put with,
- radical,
- rider,
- root,
- saddle with,
- scholia,
- slap on,
- stem,
- subjoin,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- superadd,
- superpose,
- tack on,
- tag,
- tag on,
- tail,
- theme,
- unite with,
- verse,
- voluntary,
- window dressing,
- word-formation
- affiliation,
- animal kingdom,
- apparentation,
- birth,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- branch,
- breed,
- brood,
- clan,
- class,
- common ancestry,
- consanguinity,
- deme,
- derivation,
- descent,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- filiation,
- folk,
- gens,
- house,
- kind,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- male line,
- matriclan,
- nation,
- order,
- patriclan,
- people,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- phylum,
- plant kingdom,
- race,
- seed,
- sept,
- side,
- spear side,
- species,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stock,
- strain,
- succession,
- sword side,
- totem,
- tribe
- streamline
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- contour economically or efficiently related words >
- air line,
- axis,
- beeline,
- boil down,
- chord,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- distill,
- edge,
- great-circle course,
- modernize,
- narrow,
- normal,
- oversimplify,
- perpendicular,
- purify,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- reduce,
- reduce to elements,
- refine,
- right line,
- secant,
- segment,
- shortcut,
- side,
- simplify,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- strip down,
- tangent,
- transversal,
- update,
- vector
- attend to orders,
- comply,
- conform,
- defer to,
- fall in with,
- fall into line,
- fit in,
- follow the book,
- follow the crowd,
- follow the fashion,
- follow the rule,
- get in line,
- go through channels,
- harken to,
- heed,
- keep,
- keep in step,
- listen to,
- mark,
- mind,
- obey,
- obey the rules,
- observe,
- pass muster,
- play the game,
- stay in line,
- submit,
- take orders,
- toe the line
- attend to orders,
- comply,
- conform,
- defer to,
- fall in with,
- fall into line,
- fit in,
- follow the book,
- follow the crowd,
- follow the fashion,
- follow the rule,
- get in line,
- go through channels,
- harken to,
- heed,
- keep,
- keep in step,
- listen to,
- mark,
- mind,
- obey,
- obey the rules,
- observe,
- pass muster,
- play the game,
- submit,
- take orders,
- toe the line,
- toe the mark
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- shortcut
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- a route shorter than the usual one related words >
- air lane,
- air line,
- axis,
- beat,
- beeline,
- bypass,
- chord,
- circuit,
- course,
- cut,
- cutoff,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- edge,
- flight path,
- great-circle course,
- itinerary,
- line,
- normal,
- orbit,
- path,
- perpendicular,
- primrose path,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- right line,
- road,
- round,
- route,
- run,
- sea lane,
- secant,
- segment,
- shortest way,
- side,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- streamline,
- tangent,
- tour,
- track,
- trade route,
- traject,
- trajectory,
- trajet,
- transversal,
- vector,
- walk
- diagonal
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- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals"
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- at an angle; especially connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page" related words >
- across,
- air line,
- athwart,
- axis,
- band,
- bar,
- beeline,
- bend,
- bendwise,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- chord,
- cross-hatching,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- dash,
- delineation,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- dotted line,
- edge,
- great-circle course,
- hachure,
- hairline,
- hatching,
- kittycorner,
- line,
- lineation,
- normal,
- oblique,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- perpendicular,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- rhomboid,
- right line,
- score,
- scratch comma,
- secant,
- segment,
- separatrix,
- shortcut,
- side,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- solidus,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- streak,
- streaking,
- streamline,
- striation,
- strip,
- stripe,
- striping,
- stroke,
- sublineation,
- tangent,
- thwart,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- underline,
- underlining,
- underscore,
- underscoring,
- vector,
- virgule
- azimuth
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- the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian related words >
- Cartesian coordinates,
- abscissa,
- aim,
- altitude,
- aspect,
- attitude,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- bent,
- celestial navigation,
- compass bearing,
- compass direction,
- coordinates,
- course,
- current,
- cylindrical coordinates,
- dead reckoning,
- declination,
- direction,
- direction line,
- drift,
- equator coordinates,
- exposure,
- false horizon,
- fix,
- frontage,
- heading,
- helmsmanship,
- horizon,
- inclination,
- latitude,
- lay,
- lee side,
- lie,
- line,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- line of position,
- longitude,
- magnetic bearing,
- navigation,
- ordinate,
- orientation,
- pilotage,
- piloting,
- point,
- polar coordinates,
- position,
- position line,
- quarter,
- radio bearing,
- range,
- relative bearing,
- right ascension,
- run,
- sea line,
- sensible horizon,
- set,
- skyline,
- steerage,
- steering,
- tack,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- track,
- trend,
- true bearing,
- vector,
- visible horizon,
- way,
- weather side
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bounding,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- circling-in,
- circumscribing,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- definition,
- demarcation,
- determinant,
- determination,
- division line,
- encincture,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- inclusion-exclusion,
- interface,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- specification,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit
- scout
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- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody related words >
- Argus,
- CIA man,
- Charley,
- abhor,
- abjure,
- advance guard,
- airhead,
- airplane spotter,
- ancestor,
- announcer,
- antecedent,
- avant-garde,
- barrack,
- battle line,
- be vigilant,
- be watchful,
- beachhead,
- bellwether,
- bridgehead,
- brush aside,
- buccinator,
- bug,
- bushwhacker,
- case,
- chaff,
- check out,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- cloak-and-dagger operative,
- contemn,
- contradict,
- counterintelligence agent,
- counterspy,
- course,
- cover,
- cut at,
- decline,
- deny,
- deride,
- despise,
- dig at,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- disapprove,
- discard,
- disclaim,
- discount,
- discover,
- disdain,
- dismiss,
- disown,
- disregard,
- do,
- double agent,
- dump on,
- espionage agent,
- examine,
- except,
- exclude,
- explore,
- explorer,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- farthest outpost,
- ferret out,
- find,
- fire patrolman,
- fire warden,
- fireguard,
- first line,
- fish out,
- fleer,
- flout,
- follow,
- forebear,
- forefront,
- foregoer,
- forerunner,
- forswear,
- forward observer,
- front,
- front line,
- front rank,
- front runner,
- front-runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- gaze at,
- gibe,
- go over,
- groundbreaker,
- grub up,
- guide,
- harbinger,
- have a looksee,
- herald,
- hold in derision,
- hold in view,
- hunt out,
- ignore,
- innovator,
- inside man,
- inspect,
- intelligence agent,
- investigate,
- jab,
- jab at,
- jape,
- jeer,
- keep in sight,
- keep in view,
- keep under observation,
- laugh at,
- laugh to scorn,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- line,
- locate,
- look after,
- look at,
- look on,
- look over,
- look upon,
- lookout,
- lookout man,
- lout,
- make a reconnaissance,
- measure,
- messenger,
- military-intelligence man,
- mock,
- naval-intelligence man,
- night watchman,
- observe,
- operative,
- outguard,
- outpost,
- overpass,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- pass through,
- pass up,
- pathfinder,
- patrol,
- patroller,
- patrolman,
- peep,
- perambulate,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- picket,
- pioneer,
- play the spy,
- ply,
- point,
- pooh,
- pooh-pooh,
- precedent,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- probe,
- pry out,
- push aside,
- put down,
- put under surveillance,
- quiz,
- rail at,
- railhead,
- rally,
- range,
- range over,
- rank out,
- razz,
- rebuff,
- recant,
- reconnoiter,
- reconnoiterer,
- refuse,
- refuse to consider,
- regard,
- reject,
- renounce,
- repel,
- repudiate,
- repulse,
- research,
- revile,
- ridicule,
- root out,
- roundsman,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scorn,
- scorn to receive,
- scour,
- scour the country,
- scout out,
- search out,
- secret agent,
- sentinel,
- sentry,
- set at defiance,
- shove away,
- slam,
- slap at,
- slight,
- slight over,
- sneer,
- sneer at,
- spearhead,
- spit upon,
- spotter,
- spurn,
- spy,
- spy out,
- spy upon,
- spy-catcher,
- stake out,
- stormy petrel,
- study,
- survey,
- sweep,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- track,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- transit,
- travel over,
- travel through,
- traverse,
- treat with contempt,
- turn away,
- turn out,
- twit,
- uncover,
- undercover man,
- van,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- vedette,
- view,
- voortrekker,
- voyage,
- waive,
- watch,
- watcher,
- watchkeeper,
- watchman
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