dangling
tailing
circumvention
bypass
passage
access
follower
outmaneuvered
track
leading
turn
byrunning
traversal
transit
turnabout
counteradvance
adduction
ingressive
transumption
transient
turnaround
intercurrence
go-by
deviation
progression
cross
stray
step
actuation
inturn
shadowing
entrance
entering
beating
whipping
lead
troll
outstripping
trail
dodge
backtracking
sequestration
poke out
procession
pursuance
encompassment
retreat
subsequency
turning
shaving
backsie
distantiation
travelling
grazing
rear
travel
preterition
result
skimming
progress
penetrator
divergency
succession
overcoming
divergence
interpenetration
penetration
traveling
backward
relay
tracking
trailing
evasion
mismount
flutter
revolving
crosstrack
ingression
flicker
rogitation
waver
hot on someone's heels
production
pushing
surmounting
drag the chain
surmising
inbound
disturbance
alternate
advancer
striding
gadding
on the heels of
retropulsion
outmaneuvered
ingressive
transient
rear
backward
hot on someone's heels
inbound
dangling
tailing
circumvention
bypass
passage
access
follower
track
leading
turn
byrunning
traversal
transit
turnabout
counteradvance
adduction
transumption
turnaround
intercurrence
go-by
deviation
progression
cross
stray
step
actuation
inturn
shadowing
entrance
entering
beating
whipping
troll
outstripping
backtracking
sequestration
procession
pursuance
encompassment
retreat
subsequency
turning
shaving
backsie
distantiation
travelling
grazing
travel
preterition
skimming
progress
penetrator
divergency
succession
overcoming
divergence
interpenetration
penetration
traveling
relay
tracking
trailing
evasion
mismount
flutter
revolving
crosstrack
ingression
flicker
rogitation
waver
production
pushing
surmounting
surmising
disturbance
advancer
striding
gadding
lead
retropulsion
lead
trail
dodge
poke out
result
drag the chain
alternate
noun
- The act of going past or around.
- An electrical shunt.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
verb
noun
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- An incident or episode.
- A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- Part of a path or journey.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- Serial passage.
- A strait or other narrow waterway.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- The advance of time.
- The vagina.
- The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
verb
- To execute a passage movement.
- To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
- To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
adj
noun
- The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
- An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
- Complicity or assent.
- Admission to sexual intercourse.
- A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
- The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- The process of locating data in memory.
verb
noun
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- Physical course; way.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- The pitch.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- The way or rails along which a train moves.
- Sound stored on a record.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
verb
- To create music using tracker software.
- To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- To traverse; to move across.
- To create a musical recording (a track).
- To exhibit good cognitive function.
- To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- To tow.
- To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- To follow the tracks of.
- To move.
- To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
noun
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- an unforeseen development
- a movement in a new direction
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
verb
- to change orientation or direction
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- undergo a change or development
- cause to move around or rotate
- change to the contrary
- pass to the other side of
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- move around an axis or a center
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- to send or let go
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- change color
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- accomplish by rotating
- get by buying and selling
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- alter the functioning or setting of
- direct at someone
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- go sour or spoil
- become officially one year older
noun
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
- Public transport system.
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
verb
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
- To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- To make a transit.
adj
- Going or directed inward, entering.
- Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
- Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
- Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
- Open to entry or examination.
noun
adj
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- Intermediate.
- Occasional; isolated; one-off
- having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
noun
- A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
- A homeless person.
- homestay
- A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- Something that is transient.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
noun
- The act of turning to face in the other direction.
- A series of sketches of a character as seen from different angles.
- A turnabout; a reversal of circumstances.
- A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
- Synonym of goback
- The time required to carry out a task.
- The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
- The scheduled shutdown of an industrial plant, such as an oil rig, for maintenance and testing.
- A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.
- Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
- A reversal of policy.
noun
- The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
- A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
- A detour in a road or railway.
- The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
- The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
- A departure from the correct way of acting.
- For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
- The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
- The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
noun
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- chord progression
- Development, increase, evolution.
- The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
noun
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
prep
verb
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
noun
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
- An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An instance of atmospheric interference.
- One who is lost, literally or figuratively.
adj
verb
noun
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To dance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To set, as the foot.
verb
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
noun
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
adj
noun
- The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
- An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
- A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
- An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
- A person who posts or says inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages to provoke others on the Internet for their own personal amusement or to manipulate others' perception.
- A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.
verb
- To trundle, to roll from side to side.
- To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait.
- To saunter.
- To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait.
- To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
- To post or make inflammatory or insincere statements so as to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate others' perception, especially in an online community or discussion.
- To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner.
- To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
verb
- To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To run or climb like certain plants.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- To leave (a trail of).
- To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- To create a trail in.
noun
- A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- A route or circuit generally.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
verb
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
noun
- The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
- The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
- The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
noun
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
verb
noun
- The act of turning.
- Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
- At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
- A turn or deviation from a straight course.
- The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
adj
noun
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks or bottom.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
verb
- To construct by building; to set up
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To get angry.
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To move; stir.
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- To breed and raise.
- To carve.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
adv
noun
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
verb
noun
- An act of following in sequence.
- In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A right to take possession.
- A race or series of descendants.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- Rotation, as of crops.
noun
- the act of entering into or through something
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- the ability to make way into or through something
- the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
- the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
noun
- the act of passing something along from one person or group to another
- a crew of workers who relieve another crew
- a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals
- a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance
- electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit
verb
noun
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
noun
verb
noun
- The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
- The presentation of a theatrical work.
- The act of producing, making or creating something.
- A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
- The act of being produced.
- Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- An extension or protrusion.
- The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- The total amount produced.
noun
- the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
- a noisy fight
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
verb
- To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- To vary by turns.
- To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
noun
- A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
adj
- Other; alternative.
- Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)
English words for 'The act of following or trailing around.'
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Friends.
old-fashioned, out of date
easy in mind
operations department
old people's home
Turkey
similar to I have never
to be fed up (with)
Frankness
morphing
chlorpicrin
power struggle
effluence
malignant.
companionable
talents
become moldy
to fade away
a prop
extremely bad
pork loin
adenoid
regarding ...
adjacent.
very recently
childless.
foreign trade
to get narrower
Able
to feel tense
tacky
to get up
to distress
coquette
An objectionable person
to establish.
Soft
to be promoted
foreclosure
to get mad
To bring together
disinfectant
pose
pastime
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to undertake
amiable
A village in Nebraska
preposterous
protection