Related Words:
- moot
collapse - a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot"
- of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) related words >
- abstract,
- academic,
- advance,
- agitate,
- arguable,
- argue,
- argufy,
- armchair,
- at issue,
- bandy words,
- bicker,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- broach,
- canvass,
- cavil,
- choplogic,
- commend to attention,
- confutable,
- confuted,
- conjectural,
- contend,
- contest,
- contestable,
- contested,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- debatable,
- debate,
- deniable,
- disbelieved,
- discept,
- discredited,
- disputable,
- dispute,
- disputed,
- doubtable,
- doubted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- exploded,
- give and take,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hypothetic,
- ideal,
- iffy,
- impractical,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- indefinite,
- introduce,
- join issue,
- launch,
- lay before,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- make a motion,
- mistakable,
- mistrusted,
- move,
- notional,
- offer a resolution,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open up,
- pettifog,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- pose,
- posit,
- postulate,
- postulatory,
- prefer,
- problematic,
- problematical,
- proffer,
- propose,
- proposition,
- propound,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- put it to,
- questionable,
- questioned,
- quibble,
- recommend,
- refutable,
- set before,
- set forth,
- spar,
- speculative,
- start,
- submit,
- suggest,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspected,
- suspicious,
- take sides,
- theoretical,
- thrash out,
- try conclusions,
- uncertain,
- undecided,
- under a cloud,
- under suspicion,
- undetermined,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- ventilate,
- wrangle
- timber
collapse
- a beam made of wood
- a post made of wood related words >
- afforestation,
- arboretum,
- balk,
- bare pole,
- beam,
- beams,
- billet,
- board,
- boarding,
- boards,
- boondocks,
- bush,
- bushveld,
- character,
- chase,
- clapboard,
- climax forest,
- cloud forest,
- conifer,
- cord,
- cordwood,
- deal,
- dendrology,
- driftwood,
- evergreen,
- firewood,
- forest,
- forest land,
- forest preserve,
- forestry,
- fringing forest,
- fruit tree,
- gallery forest,
- girder,
- greenwood,
- hanger,
- hardwood,
- hardwood tree,
- index forest,
- jungle,
- jungles,
- lath,
- lathing,
- lathwork,
- log,
- lumber,
- mast,
- material,
- national forest,
- palmetto barrens,
- panelboard,
- paneling,
- panelwork,
- park,
- park forest,
- pine barrens,
- plank,
- planking,
- planks,
- plyboard,
- plywood,
- pole,
- pollard,
- post,
- potential,
- primeval forest,
- prospect,
- protection forest,
- puncheon,
- quality,
- rafter,
- rain forest,
- reforestation,
- sapling,
- scrub,
- scrubland,
- seedling,
- selection forest,
- shade tree,
- shake,
- sheathing,
- sheathing board,
- sheeting,
- shingle,
- shrubland,
- sideboard,
- siding,
- silviculture,
- slab,
- slat,
- softwood,
- softwood tree,
- spar,
- splat,
- sprout forest,
- stand of timber,
- state forest,
- stave,
- stick,
- stick of wood,
- stovewood,
- stuff,
- talent,
- three-by-four,
- timber tree,
- timbering,
- timberland,
- timberwork,
- tree,
- tree veld,
- two-by-four,
- virgin forest,
- weald,
- weatherboard,
- wildwood,
- wood,
- woodland,
- woods
- pry
collapse
- be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" related words >
- Paul Pry,
- Paul-Pry,
- Peeping Tom,
- backseat driver,
- bar,
- beam,
- beat the bushes,
- bend the eyes,
- boom,
- burrow,
- busybody,
- cant hook,
- claw bar,
- crank,
- crow,
- crowbar,
- delve,
- delve into,
- dig,
- dig into,
- direct the eyes,
- disengage,
- disjoin,
- divide,
- eavesdropper,
- elevate,
- explore,
- fathom,
- fool with,
- forage,
- frisk,
- fulcrumage,
- get a foothold,
- get leverage,
- go into,
- go through,
- gossip,
- handspike,
- hoist,
- hunt,
- indagate,
- inquirer,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitor,
- intermeddle,
- intermeddler,
- investigate,
- iron crow,
- jimmy,
- kibitz,
- kibitzer,
- lever,
- leverage,
- lift,
- limb,
- look,
- look around,
- look into,
- look round,
- look through,
- marlinespike,
- meddle,
- meddle with,
- meddler,
- mess with,
- monkey with,
- mouse,
- nose,
- nose around,
- nosy Parker,
- outrigger,
- peavey,
- pedal,
- peek,
- peep,
- peer,
- peer into,
- pick up,
- pinch bar,
- play peekaboo,
- plumb,
- poke,
- poke around,
- poke into,
- prier,
- prize,
- probe,
- pry into,
- querier,
- querist,
- questioner,
- quidnunc,
- raise,
- rear,
- research,
- ripping bar,
- root,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- scopophiliac,
- search,
- search into,
- search through,
- separate,
- sift,
- sightseer,
- smell around,
- snook,
- snoop,
- snooper,
- sound,
- spar,
- spy,
- take a peep,
- take up,
- tamper with,
- treadle,
- turn,
- twist,
- uphold,
- uplift,
- upraise,
- uprear,
- voyeur,
- wedge,
- wrecking bar,
- yenta
- grapple
collapse
- to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match; "the two men grappled with each other for several minutes" related words >
- abduct,
- adhere to,
- affix,
- anchor,
- annex,
- attach,
- battle,
- bear hug,
- belay,
- bite,
- box,
- brawl,
- broil,
- carry off,
- catch,
- cement,
- cinch,
- clamp,
- clash,
- clasp,
- cleave to,
- clench,
- clinch,
- cling,
- clinging,
- clip,
- close,
- clutch,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- contend,
- contend with,
- contest,
- cope with,
- cramp,
- cut and thrust,
- deal with,
- death grip,
- duel,
- embrace,
- engraft,
- exchange blows,
- face,
- fasten,
- fence,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- firm hold,
- fix,
- foothold,
- footing,
- freeze to,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- grab,
- graft,
- grapple with,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gripe,
- hang on,
- hang on to,
- hold,
- hold fast,
- hold on,
- hold on to,
- hold tight,
- hug,
- iron grip,
- jostle,
- joust,
- keep hold of,
- kidnap,
- knit,
- make fast,
- mix it up,
- moor,
- nab,
- nail,
- never let go,
- nip,
- purchase,
- put to,
- quarrel,
- rassle,
- riot,
- run a tilt,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- scuffle,
- secure,
- seize,
- seizure,
- set,
- set to,
- shanghai,
- skirmish,
- snatch,
- spar,
- stick to,
- strive,
- struggle,
- struggle with,
- tackle,
- take,
- take on,
- tenure,
- throttle,
- thrust and parry,
- tight grip,
- tighten,
- tilt,
- toehold,
- tourney,
- trice up,
- trim,
- tussle,
- wage war,
- war,
- wrestle
- bout
collapse
- a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
- a period of illness; "a bout of fever"; "a bout of depression" related words >
- Chinese boxing,
- Olympic games,
- Olympics,
- arsis,
- bacchanal,
- bacchanalia,
- bacchanalian,
- bat,
- beat,
- bender,
- binge,
- boxing,
- boxing match,
- bust,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- celebration,
- chance,
- circle,
- circuit,
- close fighting,
- compotation,
- concours,
- contest,
- course,
- cycle,
- debauch,
- decathlon,
- derby,
- diastole,
- double-header,
- doubles,
- downbeat,
- drinking bout,
- drunk,
- drunken carousal,
- duel,
- encounter,
- engagement,
- escapade,
- event,
- fight,
- fighting,
- fisticuffs,
- fling,
- foursome,
- game,
- games,
- games of chance,
- go,
- guzzle,
- gymkhana,
- infighting,
- inning,
- innings,
- jag,
- joust,
- lark,
- match,
- matching,
- meet,
- meeting,
- occasion,
- opportunity,
- orgy,
- pentathlon,
- period,
- place,
- play,
- play-off,
- ploy,
- potation,
- prizefight,
- prizefighting,
- pub-crawl,
- pugilism,
- pulse,
- race,
- rally,
- randan,
- randy,
- relief,
- rencontre,
- revel,
- revolution,
- rotation,
- round,
- runoff,
- savate,
- say,
- series,
- session,
- set-to,
- shadowboxing,
- shift,
- singles,
- spar,
- spell,
- sport,
- spree,
- stint,
- struggle,
- symposium,
- systole,
- tear,
- test,
- the clinches,
- the fights,
- the ring,
- thesis,
- threesome,
- tilt,
- time,
- time at bat,
- toot,
- tour,
- tournament,
- tourney,
- trial,
- trick,
- turn,
- twosome,
- upbeat,
- wassail,
- whack,
- wheel,
- wingding
- alabaster
collapse
- a very light white
- a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving
- a hard compact kind of calcite
- of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue" related words >
- amphibole,
- antimony,
- apatite,
- aplite,
- arsenic,
- asbestos,
- asphalt,
- azurite,
- bauxite,
- billiard table,
- bitumen,
- boron,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- brimstone,
- bromine,
- brucite,
- calcite,
- carbon,
- celestite,
- chalcedony,
- chalk,
- chlorite,
- chromite,
- clay,
- coal,
- coke,
- corundum,
- cryolite,
- diatomite,
- driven snow,
- emery,
- epidote,
- epsomite,
- feldspar,
- flat,
- fleece,
- flour,
- foam,
- garnet,
- glass,
- glauconite,
- graphite,
- gypsum,
- hatchettine,
- holosiderite,
- ice,
- iron pyrites,
- ivory,
- jet,
- kyanite,
- level,
- lignite,
- lily,
- lime,
- maggot,
- magnesite,
- mahogany,
- malachite,
- maltha,
- marble,
- marcasite,
- marl,
- meerschaum,
- mica,
- milk,
- mineral coal,
- mineral oil,
- mineral salt,
- mineral tallow,
- mineral tar,
- mineral wax,
- molybdenite,
- monazite,
- obsidian,
- olivine,
- ozokerite,
- paper,
- pearl,
- peat,
- perlite,
- phosphate rock,
- phosphorus,
- plane,
- pumice,
- pyrite,
- pyrites,
- pyroxene,
- quartz,
- realgar,
- red clay,
- rhodonite,
- rock crystal,
- rocks,
- salt,
- satin,
- selenite,
- selenium,
- sheet,
- siderite,
- silica,
- silicate,
- silicon,
- silk,
- silver,
- slide,
- smooth,
- snow,
- spar,
- spinel,
- spodumene,
- sulfur,
- swan,
- talc,
- talcum,
- tellurium,
- tennis court,
- velvet,
- wollastonite,
- wulfenite,
- zeolite
- action,
- aerial combat,
- affray,
- agonize,
- altercation,
- argument,
- armored combat,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- bicker,
- blood feud,
- box,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brush,
- buffet,
- bullfight,
- clash,
- clash of arms,
- close,
- cockfight,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- conflict,
- contend,
- contention,
- contest,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dispute,
- dogfight,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- duel,
- embroilment,
- exchange blows,
- exchange of blows,
- fence,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- fire fight,
- fliting,
- fracas,
- fray,
- fuss,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- grapple,
- grapple with,
- ground combat,
- grunt and sweat,
- hand-to-hand combat,
- hand-to-hand fight,
- hassle,
- house-to-house combat,
- huff and puff,
- imbroglio,
- jostle,
- joust,
- logomachy,
- mix it up,
- naval combat,
- open quarrel,
- passage of arms,
- pitched battle,
- polemic,
- quarrel,
- rassle,
- riot,
- rumble,
- run a tilt,
- running fight,
- scramble,
- scrap,
- scrimmage,
- scuffle,
- sharp words,
- shoving match,
- skirmish,
- slanging match,
- snarl,
- spar,
- spat,
- squabble,
- stand-up fight,
- street fight,
- strife,
- strive,
- struggle,
- tauromachy,
- thrust and parry,
- tiff,
- tilt,
- tourney,
- tug-of-war,
- vendetta,
- wage war,
- war,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrestle
- white flag
collapse
- flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce related words >
- Roman candle,
- aid to navigation,
- alarm,
- amber light,
- balefire,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- bell,
- bell buoy,
- blinker,
- blue peter,
- buoy,
- calumet,
- caution light,
- downing of arms,
- empty hands,
- flag of truce,
- flare,
- fog bell,
- fog signal,
- fog whistle,
- foghorn,
- glance,
- go light,
- gong buoy,
- green light,
- hand of friendship,
- heliograph,
- high sign,
- international alphabet flag,
- international numeral pennant,
- kick,
- leer,
- marker beacon,
- nod,
- nudge,
- offer of parley,
- olive branch,
- outstretched hand,
- parachute flare,
- parley,
- peace feelers,
- peace offer,
- peace offering,
- peace pipe,
- pilot flag,
- pipe of peace,
- poke,
- police whistle,
- propitiatory gift,
- quarantine flag,
- radio beacon,
- red flag,
- red light,
- rocket,
- sailing aid,
- semaphore,
- semaphore flag,
- semaphore telegraph,
- sign,
- signal,
- signal beacon,
- signal bell,
- signal fire,
- signal flag,
- signal gong,
- signal gun,
- signal lamp,
- signal light,
- signal mast,
- signal post,
- signal rocket,
- signal shot,
- signal siren,
- signal tower,
- spar buoy,
- stop light,
- the nod,
- the wink,
- touch,
- traffic light,
- traffic signal,
- truce flag,
- watch fire,
- wigwag,
- wigwag flag,
- wink,
- yellow flag
- limb
collapse
- the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant"
- either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow"
- one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
- (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
- any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree related words >
- ankle,
- appendage,
- arm,
- bank,
- bar,
- bayonet legs,
- beam,
- bine,
- board,
- boom,
- border,
- bordure,
- bough,
- bowlegs,
- branch,
- branchedness,
- branchiness,
- brim,
- brink,
- brow,
- burgeon,
- calf,
- cant hook,
- claw bar,
- cnemis,
- coast,
- crank,
- crow,
- crowbar,
- deadwood,
- devil,
- drumstick,
- edge,
- enfant terrible,
- featheredge,
- flagellum,
- flange,
- foreleg,
- fork,
- frame,
- fringe,
- frond,
- gamb,
- gambrel,
- gigot,
- ham,
- hand,
- handspike,
- hem,
- hind leg,
- hock,
- imp,
- iron crow,
- jamb,
- jimmy,
- joint,
- knee,
- labellum,
- labium,
- labrum,
- ledge,
- leg,
- lever,
- limbus,
- link,
- lip,
- list,
- lobe,
- lobule,
- marge,
- margin,
- marlinespike,
- member,
- mischief,
- offshoot,
- organ,
- outrigger,
- peavey,
- pedal,
- pinch bar,
- pinion,
- podite,
- popliteal space,
- prize,
- pry,
- ragged edge,
- ramage,
- ramification,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- rim,
- ripping bar,
- rogue,
- runner,
- sarment,
- scalawag,
- scion,
- scissor-legs,
- selvage,
- shank,
- shin,
- shoot,
- shore,
- side,
- sideline,
- skirt,
- slip,
- spar,
- spear,
- spray,
- sprig,
- sprit,
- sprout,
- spur,
- stems,
- stolon,
- stumps,
- sucker,
- switch,
- tail,
- tarsus,
- tendril,
- thallus,
- treadle,
- trotters,
- twig,
- verge,
- villain,
- wing,
- wrecking bar
- cavil
collapse
- raise trivial objections related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- argue,
- argufy,
- around the bush,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bandy words,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- captiousness,
- carp,
- carping,
- catch at straws,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- censure,
- chicane,
- choplogic,
- complain,
- complaint,
- contend,
- contest,
- criticism,
- criticize,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- cut up,
- demur,
- discept,
- dispute,
- dodge,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- exception,
- fault-find,
- faultfinding,
- fence,
- find fault,
- flak,
- give and take,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hedge,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jesuitism,
- join issue,
- knock,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- mystify,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nitpick,
- object,
- obloquy,
- obscure,
- overcriticalness,
- palter,
- parry,
- pestering,
- pettifog,
- pettifogging,
- pick holes,
- pick nits,
- pick to pieces,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- prevaricate,
- priggishness,
- pull apart,
- pull to pieces,
- pussyfoot,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- slam,
- spar,
- split hairs,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- take exception,
- take sides,
- taking exception,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tergiversate,
- thrash out,
- trichoschistism,
- try conclusions,
- wrangle
- accept,
- affix,
- altercate,
- anchor,
- annex,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- assume,
- attach,
- attack,
- attempt,
- barney,
- begin,
- belay,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- blast away,
- blast off,
- brawl,
- broil,
- buckle to,
- casuistry,
- cement,
- cinch,
- clamp,
- clinch,
- commence,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cramp,
- defense,
- differ,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- dive in,
- dive into,
- dustup,
- embark,
- embark in,
- embark upon,
- endeavor,
- engage in,
- engraft,
- enter,
- enter on,
- enter upon,
- fall into,
- fall to,
- fasten,
- feud,
- fight,
- fix,
- flite,
- flyting,
- get busy,
- get cracking,
- get going,
- get off,
- get to,
- get under way,
- get with it,
- go about,
- go ahead,
- go at,
- go in for,
- go into,
- go to it,
- go upon,
- graft,
- grapple,
- hassle,
- have at,
- have words,
- head into,
- hop to it,
- hubbub,
- join issue,
- jump off,
- jump to it,
- kick off,
- knit,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- launch,
- launch forth,
- launch into,
- lay about,
- light into,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- make fast,
- moor,
- move into,
- open,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- pitch in,
- pitch into,
- plunge into,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- proceed to,
- put to,
- quarrel,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumpus,
- run-in,
- sail into,
- scrap,
- screw up,
- secure,
- send off,
- set,
- set about,
- set at,
- set forward,
- set going,
- set in,
- set out,
- set sail,
- set to work,
- shindy,
- spar,
- spat,
- squabble,
- start,
- start in,
- start off,
- start out,
- tackle,
- take off,
- take on,
- take up,
- tiff,
- tighten,
- trice up,
- trim,
- turn to,
- undertake,
- venture upon,
- verbal engagement,
- wade into,
- war of words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- red flag
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- something that irritates or demands immediate action; "doing that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull"
- the emblem of socialist revolution
- a flag that serves as a warning signal; "we didn't swim at the beach because the red flag was up" related words >
- Roman candle,
- aid to navigation,
- alarm,
- amber light,
- balefire,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- bell,
- bell buoy,
- blinker,
- blue peter,
- buoy,
- caution light,
- danger sign,
- early symptom,
- falling barometer,
- flare,
- fog bell,
- fog signal,
- fog whistle,
- foghorn,
- gathering clouds,
- glance,
- go light,
- gong buoy,
- green light,
- heliograph,
- high sign,
- international alphabet flag,
- international numeral pennant,
- kick,
- leer,
- marker beacon,
- nod,
- nudge,
- omen,
- parachute flare,
- pilot flag,
- poke,
- police whistle,
- precursor,
- preliminary sign,
- premonitory sign,
- premonitory symptom,
- prodroma,
- prodrome,
- quarantine flag,
- radio beacon,
- red light,
- rocket,
- sailing aid,
- semaphore,
- semaphore flag,
- semaphore telegraph,
- sign,
- signal,
- signal beacon,
- signal bell,
- signal fire,
- signal flag,
- signal gong,
- signal gun,
- signal lamp,
- signal light,
- signal mast,
- signal post,
- signal rocket,
- signal shot,
- signal siren,
- signal tower,
- skull and crossbones,
- spar buoy,
- stop light,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- symptom,
- the nod,
- the wink,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- touch,
- traffic light,
- traffic signal,
- warning sign,
- warning signal,
- watch fire,
- white flag,
- wigwag,
- wigwag flag,
- wink,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack
- red light
collapse
- the signal to stop
- a cautionary sign of danger related words >
- Roman candle,
- aid to navigation,
- alarm,
- amber light,
- balefire,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- bell,
- bell buoy,
- blinker,
- blue peter,
- buoy,
- caution light,
- danger sign,
- early symptom,
- falling barometer,
- flare,
- fog bell,
- fog signal,
- fog whistle,
- foghorn,
- gathering clouds,
- glance,
- go light,
- gong buoy,
- green light,
- heliograph,
- high sign,
- international alphabet flag,
- international numeral pennant,
- kick,
- leer,
- marker beacon,
- nod,
- nudge,
- omen,
- parachute flare,
- pilot flag,
- poke,
- police whistle,
- precursor,
- preliminary sign,
- premonitory sign,
- premonitory symptom,
- prodroma,
- prodrome,
- quarantine flag,
- radio beacon,
- red flag,
- rocket,
- sailing aid,
- semaphore,
- semaphore flag,
- semaphore telegraph,
- sign,
- signal,
- signal beacon,
- signal bell,
- signal fire,
- signal flag,
- signal gong,
- signal gun,
- signal lamp,
- signal light,
- signal mast,
- signal post,
- signal rocket,
- signal shot,
- signal siren,
- signal tower,
- skull and crossbones,
- spar buoy,
- stop light,
- stop-and-go light,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- symptom,
- the nod,
- the wink,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- touch,
- traffic light,
- traffic signal,
- warning sign,
- warning signal,
- watch fire,
- white flag,
- wigwag,
- wigwag flag,
- wink,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack
- high sign
collapse
- a silent signal of warning or recognition; "she started to speak but he gave her the high sign" related words >
- Roman candle,
- SOS,
- aid to navigation,
- alarm,
- amber light,
- balefire,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- bell,
- bell buoy,
- blinker,
- blue peter,
- buoy,
- caution light,
- danger sign,
- early symptom,
- falling barometer,
- flare,
- fog bell,
- fog signal,
- fog whistle,
- foghorn,
- gathering clouds,
- glance,
- go light,
- gong buoy,
- green light,
- heliograph,
- international alphabet flag,
- international numeral pennant,
- kick,
- leer,
- marker beacon,
- nod,
- nudge,
- office,
- omen,
- parachute flare,
- pilot flag,
- poke,
- police whistle,
- precursor,
- preliminary sign,
- premonitory sign,
- premonitory symptom,
- prodroma,
- prodrome,
- quarantine flag,
- radio beacon,
- red flag,
- red light,
- rocket,
- sailing aid,
- semaphore,
- semaphore flag,
- semaphore telegraph,
- sign,
- signal,
- signal beacon,
- signal bell,
- signal fire,
- signal flag,
- signal gong,
- signal gun,
- signal lamp,
- signal light,
- signal mast,
- signal post,
- signal rocket,
- signal shot,
- signal siren,
- signal tower,
- skull and crossbones,
- spar buoy,
- stop light,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- symptom,
- the nod,
- the wink,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- tip,
- tip-off,
- touch,
- traffic light,
- traffic signal,
- warning,
- warning sign,
- warning signal,
- watch fire,
- white flag,
- wigwag,
- wigwag flag,
- wink,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack
- Chinese boxing,
- Kilkenny cats,
- aggressive,
- all-out war,
- altercation,
- antagonistic,
- appeal to arms,
- argument,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- attack,
- battle,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bout,
- boxing,
- boxing match,
- cat-and-dog life,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- close fighting,
- combat,
- combative,
- conflict,
- contending,
- contention,
- contentious,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestant,
- contestation,
- contesting,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- disputant,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- enemy,
- enmity,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fisticuffs,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- hostilities,
- hostility,
- hot war,
- infighting,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- la guerre,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- martial,
- might of arms,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- military operations,
- offensive,
- open hostilities,
- open war,
- paper war,
- polemic,
- prizefight,
- prizefighting,
- pugilism,
- pugnacious,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- resort to arms,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- savate,
- scrapping,
- scrappy,
- shadowboxing,
- shooting war,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spar,
- squabbling,
- state of war,
- strife,
- striving,
- struggle,
- struggling,
- the clinches,
- the fights,
- the ring,
- the sword,
- total war,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- warlike,
- warmaking,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wartime,
- words,
- wrangling
- quibble
collapse
- an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
- evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- argue,
- argufy,
- around the bush,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bandy words,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- captiousness,
- carp,
- carping,
- catch at straws,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chop logic,
- choplogic,
- contend,
- contest,
- criticism,
- criticize,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- cut up,
- discept,
- dispute,
- dodge,
- equivocate,
- equivocation,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- evasion,
- exception,
- fault-find,
- faultfinding,
- fence,
- find fault,
- flak,
- give and take,
- hair-splitting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hedge,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jesuitism,
- join issue,
- knock,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- mystify,
- nagging,
- nicety,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nitpick,
- obloquy,
- obscure,
- overcriticalness,
- palter,
- paltering,
- parry,
- pestering,
- pettifog,
- pettifogging,
- pick holes,
- pick nits,
- pick to pieces,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- prevaricate,
- priggishness,
- pull apart,
- pull to pieces,
- pussyfoot,
- quibbling,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- slam,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spar,
- split hairs,
- squabble,
- stricture,
- subtlety,
- swipe,
- take exception,
- take sides,
- taking exception,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tergiversate,
- thrash out,
- trichoschistism,
- try conclusions,
- wrangle
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