Related Words:
- overtone
collapse - a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
- (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair" related words >
- AF,
- affective meaning,
- air,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- arcane meaning,
- assumption,
- atmosphere,
- audio frequency,
- aura,
- bearing,
- climate,
- coloration,
- coloring,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- denotation,
- drift,
- effect,
- essence,
- extension,
- feel,
- feeling,
- flageolet tone,
- force,
- frequency,
- fundamental,
- fundamental tone,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- harmonic,
- harmonic tone,
- hint,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- indication,
- inference,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intension,
- intimation,
- intonation,
- ironic suggestion,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- milieu,
- monotone,
- monotony,
- note,
- nuance,
- occult meaning,
- partial,
- partial tone,
- pertinence,
- pitch,
- pith,
- point,
- practical consequence,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- purport,
- quality,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- structural meaning,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- substance,
- suggestion,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supposition,
- symbolic meaning,
- symbolism,
- tenor,
- tinge,
- tone,
- tonelessness,
- totality of associations,
- touch,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- value
- adversative,
- adverse,
- adversive,
- allegory,
- amendatory,
- amends,
- analogy,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- antonymous,
- at cross-purposes,
- atonement,
- clashing,
- commutation,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- compensating,
- compensation,
- compensatory,
- conflicting,
- confrontation,
- confronting,
- confrontment,
- contradictory,
- contradistinct,
- contrapositive,
- contrarious,
- contrary,
- contrast,
- contrasted,
- contrastiveness,
- converse,
- coordination,
- correlation,
- counter,
- counteracting,
- counteraction,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- counterpoised,
- countervailing,
- dead against,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- equalization,
- evening,
- expiation,
- expiatory,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- harmonization,
- hostile,
- inconsistent,
- indemnification,
- indemnificatory,
- indemnity,
- inimical,
- integration,
- inverse,
- lex talionis,
- likening,
- matching,
- metaphor,
- obverse,
- offsetting,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- opposition,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- parallelism,
- penitential,
- perverse,
- proportion,
- recompense,
- recompensive,
- rectification,
- rectifying,
- redress,
- regularization,
- relation,
- reparation,
- reparative,
- repayment,
- repugnant,
- restitution,
- retaliation,
- retaliatory,
- revenge,
- reverse,
- satisfaction,
- simile,
- similitude,
- squared off,
- substitution,
- symmetrization,
- trope of comparison,
- weigh-in,
- weighing,
- weighing-in,
- weighing-out
- fraternity
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- a social club for male undergraduates related words >
- affiliation,
- agnation,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- ancestry,
- association,
- blood,
- blood relationship,
- boon companionship,
- brotherhood,
- brotherliness,
- brothership,
- cahoots,
- camaraderie,
- chumship,
- circle,
- clan,
- clannishness,
- clique,
- closeness,
- club,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- cognation,
- colleagueship,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- combination,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- community,
- community of interest,
- companionship,
- company,
- comradeship,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- confrerie,
- connection,
- consanguinity,
- consociation,
- consolidation,
- consortship,
- cooperation,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- coterie,
- country club,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- crowd,
- enation,
- esprit de corps,
- fatherhood,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- filiation,
- fraternal order,
- fraternalism,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- friendship,
- fusion,
- guild,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- kindred,
- kinship,
- league,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- membership,
- merger,
- motherhood,
- order,
- partaking,
- participation,
- partnership,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- propinquity,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relationship,
- secret society,
- set,
- sharing,
- sibship,
- sisterhood,
- sisterliness,
- sistership,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidarity,
- sorority,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- ties of blood,
- unification,
- union,
- unity
- kinship
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- (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption related words >
- accord,
- accordance,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agnation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- amity,
- ancestry,
- association,
- blood,
- blood relationship,
- bonds of harmony,
- brotherhood,
- brotherly love,
- brothership,
- caritas,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- cognation,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- common source,
- common stock,
- communion,
- community,
- community of interests,
- compatibility,
- concord,
- concordance,
- congeneracy,
- congeniality,
- connateness,
- connaturality,
- connaturalness,
- connature,
- connection,
- consanguinity,
- correspondence,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- empathy,
- enation,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- family favor,
- family likeness,
- family relationship,
- fatherhood,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- filiation,
- flesh and blood,
- fraternity,
- frictionlessness,
- generic resemblance,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- identity,
- kindred,
- like-mindedness,
- lineage,
- love,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- motherhood,
- mutuality,
- oneness,
- parallelism,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- peace,
- propinquity,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- reciprocity,
- relation,
- relationship,
- sharing,
- sibship,
- similarity,
- sisterhood,
- sistership,
- solidarity,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- team spirit,
- ties of blood,
- understanding,
- union,
- unison,
- unity
- rehearsal
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- (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory
- a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert); "he missed too many rehearsals"; "a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding" related words >
- Gedankenexperiment,
- account,
- accounts,
- apprenticeship,
- audition,
- basic training,
- bench test,
- body count,
- breaking,
- breeding,
- capitulation,
- census,
- conditioning,
- copy,
- count,
- critique,
- cultivation,
- description,
- development,
- direction,
- discipline,
- dress rehearsal,
- drill,
- drilling,
- dry run,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- enumeration,
- exercise,
- fetching-up,
- flight test,
- fostering,
- going over,
- grooming,
- head count,
- hearing,
- housebreaking,
- improvement,
- in-service training,
- inventory,
- iteration,
- manual training,
- military training,
- mise-en-scene,
- mounting,
- narration,
- narrative,
- nose count,
- nurture,
- nurturing,
- on-the-job training,
- pilot plan,
- practical test,
- practice,
- practicing,
- preparation,
- production,
- raising,
- readying,
- reaffirmation,
- rearing,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- recount,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- rehash,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- relation,
- repeat,
- repertory,
- repetition,
- reprint,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- review,
- road test,
- run-through,
- shakedown,
- shakedown cruise,
- sloyd,
- stage management,
- staging,
- statement,
- summary,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- tale-telling,
- telling,
- test flight,
- test run,
- training,
- trial run,
- tryout,
- upbringing,
- vocational education,
- vocational training,
- walk-through,
- workout,
- yarn spinning
- confrontation
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- a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison
- the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"
- a hostile disagreement face-to-face
- discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions
- a bold challenge related words >
- allegory,
- analogy,
- antagonism,
- anteposition,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- audience,
- balancing,
- bargaining,
- bargaining session,
- clashing,
- collision,
- collision course,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conclave,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- conference,
- conflict,
- confrontment,
- congress,
- consultation,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- convention,
- correlation,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of war,
- counterposition,
- cross-purposes,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- discussion,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- encounter,
- exchange of views,
- eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
- high-level talk,
- hostility,
- huddle,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- interchange of views,
- interview,
- joining,
- likening,
- matching,
- meeting,
- metaphor,
- narrow squeak,
- near thing,
- near-miss,
- negotiations,
- news conference,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- palaver,
- parallelism,
- parley,
- perversity,
- polar opposition,
- polarity,
- polarization,
- posing against,
- pourparler,
- powwow,
- press conference,
- proportion,
- relation,
- rencontre,
- repugnance,
- seance,
- session,
- showdown,
- simile,
- similitude,
- sitting,
- summit,
- summit conference,
- summitry,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing
- undertone
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- a pale or subdued color
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- a quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones" related words >
- affective meaning,
- air,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- arcane meaning,
- aspiration,
- assumption,
- atmosphere,
- aura,
- bated breath,
- bearing,
- breath,
- breathy voice,
- climate,
- coloration,
- coloring,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- denotation,
- drift,
- effect,
- essence,
- exhalation,
- extension,
- feel,
- feeling,
- force,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- hint,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- inference,
- innuendo,
- intension,
- intimation,
- ironic suggestion,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- little voice,
- low voice,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- milieu,
- mumble,
- mumbling,
- murmur,
- murmuration,
- murmuring,
- mutter,
- muttering,
- note,
- nuance,
- occult meaning,
- overtone,
- pertinence,
- pith,
- point,
- practical consequence,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- purport,
- quality,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- rumor,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- sigh,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- soft voice,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- stage whisper,
- still small voice,
- structural meaning,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- substance,
- suggestion,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supposition,
- susurration,
- susurrus,
- symbolic meaning,
- symbolism,
- tenor,
- tinge,
- tone,
- totality of associations,
- touch,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- underbreath,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- value,
- whisper,
- whispering
- analogy
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- drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
- an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- ambiguity,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- change,
- changeling,
- closeness,
- coextension,
- collineation,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- concurrence,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equidistance,
- equivalent,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- identity,
- imitation,
- likeness,
- likening,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- matching,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- nondivergence,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- relation,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- tergiversation,
- third string,
- token,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing
- nearness
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- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" related words >
- access,
- accession,
- accord,
- accordance,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- advance,
- advent,
- affairs,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- approach,
- approaching,
- appropinquation,
- approximation,
- appulse,
- assemblage,
- assimilation,
- association,
- avarice,
- bond,
- cheapness,
- chumminess,
- closefistedness,
- closeness,
- combination,
- coming,
- coming near,
- coming toward,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- confinement,
- conformity,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- contiguity,
- contrariety,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- crowdedness,
- dealings,
- deduction,
- disjunction,
- familiarity,
- filiation,
- flowing toward,
- forthcoming,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hardfistedness,
- hoarding,
- homology,
- identity,
- illiberality,
- imitation,
- imminence,
- incapaciousness,
- incommodiousness,
- inseparableness,
- intercourse,
- intimacy,
- intimate acquaintance,
- junction,
- liaison,
- likeness,
- likening,
- limitation,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- mateyness,
- metaphor,
- mimicking,
- miserliness,
- mutual attraction,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowness,
- nearing,
- oncoming,
- palliness,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- penny-pinching,
- propinquity,
- proximation,
- proximity,
- rapport,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- resemblance,
- restrictedness,
- restriction,
- sameness,
- semblance,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- slenderness,
- special affinity,
- stinginess,
- straitness,
- strictness,
- sympathy,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tight purse strings,
- tight squeeze,
- tightfistedness,
- tightness,
- ungenerosity,
- union
- subordinate
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- an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
- lower in rank or importance
- subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
- rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" related words >
- accessory,
- adjuvant,
- aide,
- assistant,
- assort,
- auxiliary,
- below,
- beneath,
- bolt,
- categorize,
- classify,
- client,
- cog,
- collate,
- collateral,
- common,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- contributory,
- creature,
- demeaning,
- dependent,
- deprive of freedom,
- disadvantaged,
- disenfranchise,
- disfranchise,
- divide,
- dominate,
- employee,
- enslave,
- enthrall,
- feudal,
- feudatory,
- flunky,
- follower,
- gradate,
- grade,
- group,
- hanger-on,
- helper,
- hireling,
- hoi polloi,
- hold captive,
- hold down,
- hold in bondage,
- hold in captivity,
- hold in leash,
- hold in subjection,
- homager,
- humble,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- lackey,
- lead captive,
- less,
- lesser,
- liege,
- liege man,
- lightweight,
- low,
- lower,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- lowly,
- make dependent,
- masses,
- minion,
- minor,
- modest,
- myrmidon,
- next to,
- ordinary,
- pawn,
- peon,
- peonize,
- poor relation,
- rank,
- retainer,
- riddle,
- right-hand man,
- satellite,
- screen,
- scrub,
- second fiddle,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- separate,
- serf,
- servant,
- servile,
- sieve,
- sift,
- size,
- slave,
- sort,
- sort out,
- staffer,
- stooge,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subjugate,
- subordinate to,
- subservient,
- subsidiary,
- supplementary,
- take captive,
- third rank,
- third string,
- third stringer,
- tributary,
- under,
- underling,
- underprivileged,
- understrapper,
- vassal,
- vassalize,
- vulgar,
- yeoman,
- yes-man
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