Related Words:
- pull in
collapse - move into (a station) of trains; "The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station" related words >
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- apprehend,
- approach,
- arrest,
- arrive,
- arrive at,
- arrive in,
- attain,
- attain to,
- be received,
- bit,
- blow in,
- bob up,
- bridle,
- bust,
- check,
- check in,
- clock in,
- collar,
- come,
- come in,
- come to,
- come to hand,
- constrain,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- crank,
- crank in,
- cringe,
- curb,
- curtail,
- decelerate,
- detain,
- dompt,
- draw back,
- draw in,
- draw taut,
- duck,
- enjoin,
- fetch,
- fetch up at,
- find,
- flinch,
- gain,
- get in,
- get there,
- get to,
- govern,
- guard,
- hinder,
- hit,
- hit town,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold down,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- inhibit,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- lay under restraint,
- make,
- make a pinch,
- make it,
- nab,
- pick up,
- pinch,
- pop up,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- pull back,
- pull out,
- punch in,
- reach,
- reel,
- reel in,
- rein,
- rein in,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retract,
- retrench,
- ring in,
- roll in,
- run in,
- set back,
- show up,
- shrink,
- shy,
- sign in,
- slow down,
- snub,
- straiten,
- tackle,
- tauten,
- tighten,
- time in,
- trim,
- turn up,
- wince,
- winch,
- wind in,
- windlass,
- withdraw,
- withhold
- bide
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- dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" related words >
- abide,
- abide with,
- await,
- bear,
- bear with,
- bide the issue,
- brave,
- brook,
- carry on,
- cease not,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- delay,
- dig,
- dillydally,
- drag on,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go along,
- go on,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang in,
- hang in there,
- hang out,
- hang tough,
- hold,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- hold steady,
- hold your horses,
- jog on,
- keep,
- keep going,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- linger,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- loiter,
- lump,
- lump it,
- maintain,
- mark time,
- never cease,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persevere,
- persist,
- prevail,
- put up with,
- remain,
- run,
- run on,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sit up for,
- slog on,
- stagger on,
- stand,
- stand for,
- stay,
- stay on,
- stay up,
- stay up for,
- stick,
- stick around,
- subsist,
- suffer,
- support,
- survive,
- sustain,
- sweat,
- sweat it out,
- sweat out,
- take time,
- take up with,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- tolerate,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- wait for,
- wait on,
- wait up for,
- watch,
- watch and wait,
- wear,
- wear well
- intermezzo
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- a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
- a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony related words >
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- anacrusis,
- bass passage,
- bit,
- bourdon,
- break,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- chaser,
- chorus,
- coda,
- coffee break,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- development,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- division,
- downtime,
- drop,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- exposition,
- expository scene,
- figure,
- finale,
- folderol,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- harmonic close,
- hesitation,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- introductory phrase,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- measure,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- number,
- off-time,
- ornament,
- part,
- passage,
- pause,
- period,
- phrase,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- refrain,
- relief,
- remission,
- resolution,
- respite,
- response,
- rest,
- resting point,
- ritornello,
- routine,
- scene,
- section,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stay,
- strain,
- striptease,
- suspension,
- tailpiece,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- vacation,
- variation,
- verse
- putterer
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- a person who putters about related words >
- Sunday painter,
- amateur,
- clock watcher,
- coquet,
- dabbler,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dilettante,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- faineant,
- flirt,
- fribble,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- smatterer,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- abide,
- await,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- clock watcher,
- continue,
- dallier,
- dally,
- dawdler,
- delay,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- dillydally,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodle,
- doodler,
- drag,
- drag out,
- draw out,
- drone,
- dwell on,
- extend,
- faineant,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- flag,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get behind,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold your horses,
- idle,
- idler,
- lag,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lengthen,
- lengthen out,
- lie-abed,
- linger,
- linger behind,
- linger on,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lollygag,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mark time,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddle,
- plodder,
- poke,
- potterer,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- prolong,
- protract,
- putterer,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- spin out,
- stay,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straggle,
- stretch out,
- take time,
- tarry,
- temporize,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- trifler,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waiter on Providence,
- waste time
- acceleration
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- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- an increase in rate of change; "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change"
- (physics) a rate of increase of velocity related words >
- accelerando,
- aggravation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- deepening,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- double-quick time,
- drive,
- enhancement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- festination,
- forced march,
- forwarding,
- getaway,
- hastening,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hurrying,
- impetus,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- magnification,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- quickening,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- speeding,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- thrust,
- tightening
- albeit,
- although,
- as,
- as far as,
- as long as,
- as things go,
- at which time,
- because,
- being as how,
- boundary condition,
- catch,
- cause,
- clause,
- condition,
- considering,
- donnee,
- during which time,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- fine print,
- for,
- forasmuch as,
- given,
- grounds,
- howbeit,
- in that,
- inasmuch as,
- insofar as,
- insomuch as,
- joker,
- kicker,
- limiting condition,
- now,
- obligation,
- parameter,
- parce que,
- prerequisite,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- requisite,
- saving clause,
- seeing,
- seeing as how,
- seeing that,
- since,
- sine qua non,
- small print,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- string,
- terms,
- the while,
- ultimatum,
- when,
- while,
- whilst
- eleventh hour
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- the latest possible moment; "money became available at the eleventh hour"; "at the last minute the government changed the rules" related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- bedtime,
- belatedness,
- charged moment,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- curfew,
- deadline,
- deathbed,
- decisive moment,
- high time,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- last minute,
- last-minute,
- late hour,
- lateness,
- later,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- small hours,
- tardiness,
- target date,
- unpreparedness,
- unpunctuality,
- unreadiness,
- untimeliness,
- zero hour
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- assume,
- betoken,
- bluff,
- brandish,
- breathe,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to notice,
- counterfeit,
- cover up,
- cut a dash,
- cut a figure,
- cut a swath,
- dangle,
- dazzle,
- demonstrate,
- develop,
- disclose,
- display,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- divulge,
- do a bit,
- dramatize,
- embody,
- enact,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exhibit,
- expose to view,
- express,
- fake,
- feign,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- four-flush,
- gammon,
- give sign,
- give token,
- glare,
- glitter,
- highlight,
- histrionize,
- illuminate,
- incarnate,
- indicate,
- let on,
- let on like,
- make a figure,
- make a pretense,
- make a show,
- make a splash,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make clear,
- make like,
- make out like,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- materialize,
- mean,
- overact,
- parade,
- perform,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play possum,
- playact,
- present,
- pretend,
- produce,
- profess,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- represent,
- reveal,
- roll out,
- set forth,
- sham,
- shine,
- show,
- show forth,
- simulate,
- splash,
- splurge,
- spotlight,
- token,
- trot out,
- tug the heartstrings,
- unfold,
- wave,
- wear
- pass on
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- give to or transfer possession of; "I am passing on my genes to my children" related words >
- OK,
- abalienate,
- accept,
- accredit,
- add a codicil,
- advance,
- affirm,
- alien,
- alienate,
- amen,
- amortize,
- approve,
- assign,
- authenticate,
- authorize,
- autograph,
- barter,
- be lost,
- bequeath,
- break,
- broadcast,
- carry over,
- cease to be,
- cease to live,
- cede,
- certify,
- change hands,
- change ownership,
- come along,
- come on,
- communicate,
- confer,
- confirm,
- consign,
- convey,
- cosign,
- countersign,
- cover ground,
- decease,
- deed,
- deed over,
- deliver,
- demise,
- depart,
- depart this life,
- deport,
- descend,
- devise,
- devolve,
- devolve upon,
- die,
- diffuse,
- disseminate,
- endorse,
- enfeoff,
- entail,
- exchange,
- execute a will,
- expel,
- expire,
- export,
- extradite,
- fall,
- fall asleep,
- gain ground,
- gather head,
- gather way,
- get across,
- get ahead,
- get along,
- get over,
- give,
- give permission,
- give the go-ahead,
- give the imprimatur,
- give thumbs up,
- give title to,
- give word,
- go,
- go ahead,
- go along,
- go fast,
- go forward,
- go on,
- go out,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand forward,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- impart,
- import,
- initial,
- leave,
- leave word,
- make a bequest,
- make a will,
- make good time,
- make head against,
- make headway,
- make known,
- make over,
- make progress,
- make progress against,
- make strides,
- make up leeway,
- metastasize,
- metathesize,
- move,
- move forward,
- negotiate,
- notarize,
- part,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass away,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- pass upon,
- perfuse,
- perish,
- permit,
- proceed,
- progress,
- put off mortality,
- quit this world,
- ratify,
- relay,
- render,
- report,
- return to dust,
- roll,
- rubber stamp,
- sanction,
- say amen to,
- seal,
- second,
- sell,
- send,
- send word,
- settle,
- settle on,
- share,
- share with,
- sign,
- sign and seal,
- sign away,
- sign over,
- signal,
- spread,
- stem,
- step forward,
- stop breathing,
- subscribe to,
- succeed,
- succumb,
- support,
- surrender,
- swear and affirm,
- swear to,
- switch,
- tell,
- trade,
- transfer,
- transfer property,
- transfuse,
- translate,
- translocate,
- transmit,
- transplace,
- transplant,
- transpose,
- travel,
- turn over,
- undersign,
- underwrite,
- up and die,
- validate,
- visa,
- vise,
- warrant,
- will,
- will and bequeath,
- will to,
- yield the ghost
- imminence
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- the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon related words >
- access,
- accession,
- advance,
- advent,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- anticipation,
- approach,
- approaching,
- appropinquation,
- approximation,
- appulse,
- bulldozing,
- by-and-by,
- certainty,
- coming,
- coming near,
- coming toward,
- commination,
- confidence,
- contemplation,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- denunciation,
- determinism,
- distant future,
- empty threat,
- eventuality,
- expectancy,
- expectation,
- flowing toward,
- foreboding,
- foresight,
- forthcoming,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- hereafter,
- idle threat,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- implied threat,
- intimidation,
- menace,
- near future,
- nearing,
- nearness,
- offing,
- oncoming,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- probability,
- project,
- promise of harm,
- prophecy,
- prospect,
- proximation,
- reliance,
- sword of Damocles,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- thought,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- unastonishment,
- warning
- be enthusiastic,
- be noisy,
- brawl,
- bubble over,
- carouse,
- carry on,
- carry on over,
- celebrate,
- chirm,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- cut loose,
- cut up,
- cut up rough,
- debauch,
- effervesce,
- enthuse,
- go on,
- go on over,
- gush,
- gush over,
- hell around,
- horse around,
- jollify,
- jolly,
- lark,
- let go,
- let loose,
- let off steam,
- maffick,
- make a noise,
- make a racket,
- make an uproar,
- make merry,
- make much of,
- make whoopee,
- noise,
- racket,
- raise Cain,
- raise a clamor,
- raise hell,
- raise sand,
- raise the deuce,
- raise the devil,
- raise the roof,
- rave,
- rave about,
- revel,
- rhapsodize,
- roar,
- roister,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- rumpus,
- see life,
- skylark,
- spree,
- step out,
- take on over,
- wanton
- get at
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- influence by corruption related words >
- annex,
- approach,
- arrive at,
- arrive upon,
- ascertain,
- assure,
- bribe,
- buy,
- buy off,
- certify,
- cinch,
- clear up,
- clinch,
- come at,
- come upon,
- corrupt,
- decide,
- determine,
- dismiss all doubt,
- ensure,
- establish,
- fall upon,
- find out,
- fix,
- get hold of,
- get to,
- glom on to,
- grab,
- grease,
- grease the palm,
- hit upon,
- insure,
- lay hands on,
- light upon,
- make certain,
- make no doubt,
- make no mistake,
- make sure,
- make sure of,
- nail down,
- pay off,
- pitch upon,
- purchase,
- reach,
- reassure,
- remove all doubt,
- see that,
- see to it,
- set at rest,
- settle,
- sort out,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- suborn,
- take care of,
- take over,
- take possession,
- take up,
- tamper with,
- tickle the palm
- a breath,
- bit,
- breath,
- coup,
- crack,
- flash,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- instant,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- little,
- little bit,
- little while,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- no time,
- pair of winks,
- sec,
- second,
- shake,
- short spell,
- short time,
- small space,
- span,
- split second,
- spurt,
- stroke,
- tick,
- trice,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- wink
- yet
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- up to the present time; "I have yet to see the results"; "details are yet to be worked out" related words >
- above,
- additionally,
- after a while,
- after all,
- again,
- albeit,
- all included,
- all the same,
- along,
- already,
- also,
- although,
- altogether,
- among other things,
- and all,
- and also,
- and so,
- as well,
- as yet,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- au reste,
- before,
- before all,
- beside,
- besides,
- beyond,
- but,
- by this time,
- earlier,
- early,
- else,
- en plus,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- even,
- even so,
- eventually,
- except,
- extra,
- farther,
- finally,
- for all that,
- for lagniappe,
- formerly,
- further,
- furthermore,
- heretofore,
- hereunto,
- hitherto,
- howbeit,
- however,
- in addition,
- in any case,
- in any event,
- in due course,
- inter alia,
- into the bargain,
- item,
- just the same,
- likewise,
- more,
- moreover,
- nevertheless,
- nonetheless,
- notwithstanding,
- on the side,
- on top of,
- or ever,
- over,
- plus,
- previously,
- priorly,
- rather,
- save,
- similarly,
- so far,
- someday,
- sometime,
- somewhen,
- sooner or later,
- still,
- then,
- then as previously,
- theretofore,
- therewith,
- though,
- thus far,
- till now,
- to boot,
- to date,
- to this day,
- too,
- ultimately,
- until now,
- until this time,
- up to now,
- when
- approach anchorage,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear for,
- bear up for,
- bear up to,
- break for,
- close with,
- dash for,
- fetch,
- go aboard,
- go alongside,
- go for,
- hit for,
- lay aboard,
- lay for,
- lay in,
- lie in,
- make,
- make at,
- make for,
- make up to,
- put away for,
- put in,
- put into port,
- reach,
- run for,
- set out for,
- stand for,
- steer for,
- steer toward
- approach anchorage,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear for,
- bear up for,
- bear up to,
- break for,
- close with,
- dash for,
- fetch,
- go aboard,
- go alongside,
- go for,
- hit for,
- lay aboard,
- lay for,
- lay in,
- lie in,
- make,
- make at,
- make for,
- make up to,
- put away for,
- put in,
- put into port,
- reach,
- sail for,
- set out for,
- stand for,
- steer for,
- steer toward
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- apprentice,
- approach,
- arrive,
- arrive at,
- arrive in,
- attain,
- attain to,
- be received,
- blow in,
- bob up,
- break,
- break in,
- breed,
- bring up,
- bring up short,
- cease fire,
- check in,
- clock in,
- come,
- come in,
- come to,
- come to hand,
- come up short,
- condition,
- cultivate,
- develop,
- discipline,
- draw up,
- drill,
- exercise,
- fetch,
- fetch up at,
- find,
- fit,
- form,
- foster,
- gain,
- get in,
- get there,
- get to,
- groom,
- halt,
- hang fire,
- haul up,
- hit,
- hit town,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- improve,
- lick into shape,
- make,
- make it,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- pop up,
- practice,
- prepare,
- pull in,
- pull up,
- punch in,
- put in tune,
- put to school,
- raise,
- reach,
- ready,
- rear,
- rehearse,
- ring in,
- roll in,
- send to school,
- show up,
- sign in,
- stall,
- stick,
- stop,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- take in hand,
- time in,
- train,
- turn up
- interminably
collapse
- all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly" related words >
- ad infinitum,
- again and again,
- and night,
- at a stretch,
- boundlessly,
- ceaselessly,
- connectedly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- continuously,
- cumulatively,
- cyclically,
- day after day,
- endlessly,
- enduringly,
- eternally,
- everlastingly,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- forever,
- hour after hour,
- illimitably,
- immeasurably,
- immensely,
- in perpetuity,
- incalculably,
- incessantly,
- incomprehensibly,
- indestructibly,
- infinitely,
- innumerably,
- limitlessly,
- long,
- long ago,
- long since,
- measurelessly,
- monotonously,
- month after month,
- morning,
- never-endingly,
- noon,
- on a stretch,
- on and on,
- on end,
- perdurably,
- perennially,
- permanently,
- perpetually,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- repetitively,
- round the clock,
- since time began,
- steadily,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- time without end,
- to infinity,
- together,
- unbrokenly,
- unceasingly,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unrelievedly,
- without a break,
- without cease,
- without end,
- without limit,
- without stopping,
- world without end,
- year after year
- abide,
- bide,
- carry on,
- carry through,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go on,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- keep,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- perennate,
- persist,
- prevail,
- remain,
- run,
- run on,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- subsist,
- survive,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- wear,
- wear well
- diary
collapse
- a personal journal (as a physical object)
- a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations related words >
- Clio,
- Domesday Book,
- Muse of history,
- account book,
- address book,
- adventures,
- adversaria,
- album,
- annals,
- annual,
- appointment calendar,
- appointment schedule,
- autobiography,
- bimonthly,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- biweekly,
- blankbook,
- blotter,
- calendar,
- case history,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- check sheet,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- classified catalog,
- clock card,
- commonplace book,
- confessions,
- court calendar,
- curriculum vitae,
- daily,
- date slip,
- datebook,
- daybook,
- desk calendar,
- diptych,
- docket,
- engagement book,
- ephemeris,
- experiences,
- fortnightly,
- fortunes,
- gazette,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- history,
- journal,
- ledger,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- log,
- logbook,
- loose-leaf notebook,
- magazine,
- martyrology,
- memo book,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorandum book,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- memory book,
- monthly,
- necrology,
- newsmagazine,
- notebook,
- obituary,
- organ,
- pad,
- periodical,
- petty cashbook,
- photobiography,
- pictorial,
- pocket notebook,
- pocketbook,
- police blotter,
- profile,
- quarterly,
- record,
- register,
- registry,
- resume,
- review,
- scrapbook,
- scratch pad,
- serial,
- slick magazine,
- spiral notebook,
- story,
- table,
- tablet,
- theory of history,
- time book,
- time chart,
- time scale,
- time schedule,
- time sheet,
- time study,
- timecard,
- timetable,
- trade magazine,
- triptych,
- weekly,
- workbook,
- writing tablet,
- yearbook
- aid,
- anoint,
- be promising,
- beeswax,
- bid fair to,
- clear the way,
- daub,
- dress,
- ease,
- embrocate,
- enable,
- expedite,
- explain,
- facilitate,
- glycerolate,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- hasten,
- have favorable odds,
- help along,
- increase the chances,
- lard,
- loose,
- lubricate,
- make clear,
- make fair promise,
- make more likely,
- make possible,
- make probable,
- make way for,
- offer the expectation,
- oil,
- open the way,
- open up,
- pave the way,
- permit,
- pomade,
- prepare the way,
- probabilize,
- promise,
- quicken,
- remove friction,
- run interference for,
- salve,
- seem likely,
- show a tendency,
- simplify,
- slick,
- slick on,
- smear,
- smooth,
- soap the ways,
- speed,
- stand fair to,
- unbar,
- unblock,
- unclog,
- unguent,
- unjam,
- wax
- insure
collapse
- take out insurance for related words >
- arm,
- armor,
- ascertain,
- assure,
- attest,
- back,
- be sponsor for,
- bless,
- bond,
- certify,
- champion,
- cinch,
- clear up,
- clinch,
- cloak,
- compass about,
- confirm,
- copyright,
- countersecure,
- cover,
- cushion,
- decide,
- defend,
- determine,
- dismiss all doubt,
- endorse,
- ensure,
- establish,
- fence,
- fend,
- find out,
- fix,
- get at,
- guarantee,
- guaranty,
- guard,
- harbor,
- haven,
- keep,
- keep from harm,
- make certain,
- make no doubt,
- make no mistake,
- make safe,
- make sure,
- make sure of,
- nail down,
- nestle,
- patent,
- police,
- protect,
- reassure,
- register,
- remove all doubt,
- ride shotgun for,
- safeguard,
- screen,
- secure,
- see that,
- see to it,
- set at rest,
- settle,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shroud,
- sign,
- sign for,
- sort out,
- sponsor,
- stand behind,
- stand up for,
- subscribe to,
- undersign,
- underwrite,
- warrant
- doodle
collapse
- make a doodle; draw aimlessly related words >
- ass,
- bagpipe,
- beat,
- beguile the time,
- bilk,
- black and white,
- blow,
- blow a horn,
- born fool,
- brouillon,
- buffoon,
- bugle,
- burn daylight,
- carillon,
- cartoon,
- chalk,
- charcoal,
- charcoal drawing,
- cheat,
- chiaroscuro,
- chisel,
- clarion,
- clown,
- color,
- consume time,
- copy,
- cozen,
- crayon,
- crosshatch,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dash off,
- daub,
- dawdle,
- defraud,
- delineate,
- delineation,
- depict,
- design,
- diagram,
- diddle,
- dillydally,
- do,
- donkey,
- double-tongue,
- draft,
- draw,
- drawing,
- ebauche,
- egregious ass,
- esquisse,
- fife,
- figure of fun,
- flimflam,
- flute,
- fool,
- footle,
- fribble,
- fritter away time,
- graph,
- gyp,
- hatch,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- imbecile,
- jackass,
- jerk,
- kill time,
- lag,
- limn,
- line drawing,
- linger,
- lip,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- lose time,
- lunatic,
- mess,
- mess around,
- milksop,
- mooncalf,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- overreach,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- pass the time,
- pastel,
- pen-and-ink,
- pencil,
- pencil drawing,
- perfect fool,
- picture,
- picturize,
- piddle,
- pipe,
- poke,
- portray,
- potter,
- puddle,
- putter,
- rough copy,
- rough draft,
- rough outline,
- schmuck,
- scrabble,
- scratch,
- scrawl,
- scribble,
- scumble,
- shade,
- silhouette,
- silver-print drawing,
- sinopia,
- sketch,
- softhead,
- sop,
- sound,
- stencil,
- study,
- stupid ass,
- tinker,
- tint,
- tomfool,
- tongue,
- toot,
- tootle,
- trace,
- tracing,
- trifle,
- triple-tongue,
- trumpet,
- tweedle,
- vignette,
- waste time,
- whistle,
- wind,
- wind the horn,
- zany
- advance,
- be blooded,
- be successful,
- catch on,
- click,
- come along,
- come off,
- come on,
- connect,
- do well,
- enjoy prosperity,
- farewell,
- get ahead,
- get on,
- get on swimmingly,
- get on well,
- go,
- go great guns,
- go off,
- go over,
- go over big,
- go to town,
- go well,
- graduate,
- make a hit,
- make headway,
- make progress,
- meet with success,
- pass,
- prevail,
- progress,
- prosper,
- qualify,
- succeed,
- take,
- turn out well,
- work well,
- work wonders
- detrain
collapse
- leave a train related words >
- deplane
collapse
- get off an airplane related words >
- prophecy
collapse
- knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
- a prediction uttered under divine inspiration related words >
- actuarial prediction,
- afflatus,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- apocalypse,
- augury,
- by-and-by,
- cast,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- determinism,
- direct communication,
- distant future,
- divination,
- divine inspiration,
- divine revelation,
- epiphany,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- foreboding,
- forecast,
- forecasting,
- foreshowing,
- foresight,
- foretelling,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- guesswork,
- hereafter,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- improbability,
- inspiration,
- mystical experience,
- mysticism,
- near future,
- offing,
- omen,
- oracle,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- prefiguration,
- prefigurement,
- prefiguring,
- presage,
- presaging,
- presentiment,
- preshowing,
- presignifying,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- project,
- promise,
- prophesying,
- prospect,
- prospectus,
- revelation,
- soothsay,
- soothsaying,
- speculation,
- statistical prediction,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- theophania,
- theophany,
- theopneustia,
- theopneusty,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- vaticination,
- vision,
- weird
- stint
collapse
- an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" related words >
- allotment,
- amount,
- anchor watch,
- apportionment,
- assignment,
- begrudge,
- bit,
- bound,
- bout,
- box,
- box in,
- box up,
- busywork,
- caliber,
- chare,
- charge,
- check,
- chore,
- circumscribe,
- circumscription,
- commission,
- compass,
- condition,
- confine,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- contain,
- control,
- copyright,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- curb,
- cut,
- cut corners,
- day shift,
- degree,
- devoir,
- discipline,
- dogwatch,
- draw the line,
- duty,
- economize,
- errand,
- exercise,
- extent,
- famish,
- fish to fry,
- full time,
- go,
- grade,
- graveyard shift,
- grudge,
- half time,
- hedge about,
- height,
- hem,
- hem in,
- homework,
- interval,
- job,
- job of work,
- keep from spreading,
- keep within bounds,
- labor,
- leap,
- level,
- limit,
- limitation,
- live upon nothing,
- lobster trick,
- localize,
- make-work,
- mark,
- matters in hand,
- measure,
- mission,
- moderate,
- narrow,
- night shift,
- notch,
- nuance,
- obligation,
- odd job,
- overtime,
- part time,
- participation,
- pas,
- patent,
- peg,
- period,
- piece of work,
- pinch,
- pinch pennies,
- pitch,
- plane,
- plateau,
- point,
- project,
- proportion,
- qualification,
- qualify,
- quantity,
- quota,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- register,
- relay,
- remove,
- reservation,
- responsibility,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrict,
- restriction,
- round,
- routine,
- rung,
- scale,
- scamp,
- scant,
- scope,
- scrape,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- service,
- shade,
- shadow,
- share,
- shift,
- short,
- skimp,
- space,
- spare,
- specialize,
- split schedule,
- split shift,
- stair,
- standard,
- starve,
- step,
- straiten,
- stretch,
- stricture,
- sunrise watch,
- swing shift,
- task,
- term,
- things to do,
- tighten,
- time,
- tour,
- tour of duty,
- tread,
- trick,
- turn,
- turn of work,
- watch,
- withhold,
- work,
- work shift
- clock watcher
collapse
- a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time related words >
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- mope,
- moper,
- old soldier,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- soldier,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsher
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- allegoric,
- conventional,
- customary,
- established,
- fabulous,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figmental,
- fixed,
- folk,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- inveterate,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- make-believe,
- mythic,
- mythicized,
- mythified,
- mythopoeic,
- mythopoetic,
- nonactual,
- nonfactual,
- nonrealistic,
- of long standing,
- of the folk,
- oral,
- parabolic,
- prescriptive,
- received,
- recognized,
- romantic,
- romanticized,
- rooted,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unwritten,
- venerable,
- worshipful
- acknowledge,
- act,
- act a part,
- admit,
- admit everything,
- affect,
- allow,
- assume,
- avow,
- betray,
- bluff,
- come clean,
- concede,
- confess,
- cop a plea,
- counterfeit,
- cover up,
- disclose,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- divulge,
- fake,
- feign,
- four-flush,
- gammon,
- give away,
- grant,
- let on like,
- let out,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- open up,
- out with it,
- own,
- own up,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- plead guilty,
- pretend,
- profess,
- put on,
- sham,
- simulate,
- spill,
- spill it,
- spit it out,
- tell,
- tell all,
- tell the truth,
- uncover
- pause
collapse
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" related words >
- abeyance,
- accent,
- accent mark,
- afterthought,
- back down,
- balance,
- bar,
- bashfulness,
- bind,
- blench,
- block,
- blockage,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- boundary,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breathe,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- breve rest,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caesura,
- call a break,
- call a recess,
- call time,
- cancel,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- character,
- cigarette break,
- clause boundary,
- clause terminal,
- close juncture,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- colon,
- comma,
- compunction,
- custos,
- day off,
- debate,
- declare a recess,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- deliberate,
- demur,
- demurral,
- detention,
- diffidence,
- direct,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinue,
- discontinuity,
- dot,
- double take,
- downtime,
- dragging,
- drop,
- eighth rest,
- enforced respite,
- expression mark,
- falling terminal,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fear,
- fermata,
- fight shy of,
- fissure,
- flinch,
- gap,
- half rest,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- hang back,
- hang off,
- hang-up,
- happy hour,
- have qualms,
- hem and haw,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitate,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hindrance,
- hold,
- hold off,
- hold up,
- hold-up,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- hover,
- hum and haw,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermit,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interrupt,
- interruption,
- interval,
- intervene,
- jam,
- jib,
- juncture,
- key signature,
- knock off,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- lay off,
- layoff,
- lead,
- let up,
- letup,
- ligature,
- logjam,
- lull,
- make bones about,
- mark,
- mark time,
- measure,
- metronomic mark,
- minim,
- modesty,
- moratorium,
- notation,
- objection,
- obstruction,
- off-time,
- open juncture,
- paperasserie,
- period,
- plateau,
- point,
- point of repose,
- ponder,
- presa,
- protest,
- pull back,
- quail,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmishness,
- quarter rest,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- recoil,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- relief,
- remission,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retreat,
- rising terminal,
- sandhi,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- segno,
- semicolon,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- shy at,
- shyness,
- sign,
- signature,
- sixteenth rest,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- slur,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stickling,
- stop,
- stop for breath,
- stop to consider,
- stoppage,
- straddle the fence,
- strain,
- strain at,
- surcease,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- swell,
- symbol,
- take a break,
- take a recess,
- take a rest,
- take five,
- take ten,
- take time out,
- tea break,
- tempo mark,
- terminal,
- think twice about,
- tie,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- time off,
- time out,
- time signature,
- truce,
- vacation,
- vinculum,
- wait,
- waver,
- wince,
- withdraw,
- word boundary,
- yield
- account,
- account book,
- accounts payable ledger,
- accounts receivable ledger,
- active list,
- adversaria,
- aide-memoire,
- annals,
- annotation,
- archives,
- balance sheet,
- bank ledger,
- bankbook,
- blacklist,
- booking,
- books,
- card ledger,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- chancery,
- check sheet,
- checklist,
- chronicle,
- chronicling,
- chronology,
- civil list,
- clock card,
- correspondence,
- cost card,
- cost ledger,
- cost sheet,
- date slip,
- datebook,
- daybook,
- diary,
- docket,
- documentation,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- entering,
- entry,
- enumeration,
- factory ledger,
- files,
- filing,
- footnote,
- history,
- impanelment,
- indexing,
- inscribing,
- inscription,
- insertion,
- inventory,
- inventorying,
- item,
- itemization,
- items,
- jotting,
- journal,
- ledger,
- letters,
- list,
- listing,
- log,
- logbook,
- logging,
- marginal note,
- marginalia,
- matriculation,
- memo,
- memoir,
- memorandum,
- memorial,
- minutes,
- notation,
- note,
- passbook,
- pipe roll,
- posting,
- purchase ledger,
- record,
- record book,
- record keeping,
- recordation,
- recording,
- register,
- register office,
- registration,
- relic,
- remains,
- reminder,
- repertory,
- retired list,
- roll,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- sales journal,
- sales ledger,
- schedule,
- scholia,
- scholium,
- scroll,
- sick list,
- stock ledger,
- stores ledger,
- suspense ledger,
- table,
- tabulation,
- tally,
- tally sheet,
- time book,
- time chart,
- time scale,
- time schedule,
- time sheet,
- time study,
- timecard,
- timetable,
- token,
- trace,
- vestige
- a bit previous,
- advanced,
- at the double,
- crowded,
- double-quick,
- double-time,
- far ahead,
- forward,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-pushed,
- hard-run,
- hasty,
- hurried,
- ill-considered,
- impulsive,
- not firm,
- on the double,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- premature,
- pressed,
- pressed for time,
- previous,
- pushed,
- too early,
- too soon,
- uncrystallized,
- unjelled,
- unmatured,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unripe,
- untimely
- get across
collapse
- communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well" related words >
- assail the ear,
- be glimpsed,
- be heard,
- broadcast,
- caress the ear,
- clarify,
- come through,
- communicate,
- contact,
- convey,
- dawn on,
- disseminate,
- elucidate,
- explain,
- explicate,
- gain a hearing,
- get over,
- get through to,
- get to,
- give,
- give word,
- hand on,
- impart,
- leave word,
- make an impression,
- make clear,
- make it clear,
- make known,
- make oneself heard,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass on,
- penetrate,
- popularize,
- put across,
- put over,
- reach,
- reach the ear,
- register,
- render,
- report,
- send,
- send word,
- share,
- share with,
- signal,
- simplify,
- sink in,
- soak in,
- spell out,
- tell,
- transfer,
- transmit,
- vulgarize
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