make something of
debatably
threaten
step to
challenge
brace
controvertible
call to account
circumvent
parry
address
whip
duck
sidestep
hedge
elude
evade
skirt
put off
dodge
setter
challengeable
fudge
recusable
interrogate
go
go up against
debate
challengee
put words in someone's mouth
come to grips
joust
argumentative
controvert
A-type conflict
battle out
questioning
multichallenge
hustle
defiance
requiz
buffet
ad hominem
challenging
stir
trouble
trouble oneself
daunting
bother
inconvenience oneself
egg on
take up the glove
throw down the gauntlet
incite
get up in someone's face
take a run at
grill
sympathy card
interrogatingly
prod
wish
riddle me that, Batman
throw-down
exigency
take the bull by the horns
punt
take up the gauntlet
end run
expostulate
abetment
contest
bate
rise
gladiator
appeal
enquiry
impugnable
lab rat
query
question
abettal
stand up against
inquiry
instigation
duke it out
request
interrogation
stress
praecipe
well played
questionary
goading
goad
spur
prodding
controvertible
challengeable
recusable
argumentative
multichallenge
ad hominem
daunting
impugnable
questionary
debatably
interrogatingly
setter
challengee
A-type conflict
questioning
defiance
challenging
sympathy card
throw-down
exigency
end run
challenge
abetment
enquiry
lab rat
query
question
abettal
inquiry
instigation
interrogation
stress
praecipe
prod
goading
goad
spur
prodding
make something of
threaten
step to
challenge
brace
call to account
circumvent
parry
address
whip
duck
sidestep
hedge
elude
evade
skirt
put off
dodge
fudge
interrogate
go
go up against
debate
put words in someone's mouth
come to grips
joust
controvert
battle out
hustle
requiz
buffet
stir
trouble
trouble oneself
bother
inconvenience oneself
egg on
take up the glove
throw down the gauntlet
incite
get up in someone's face
take a run at
grill
prod
wish
take the bull by the horns
punt
take up the gauntlet
expostulate
contest
bate
rise
gladiator
appeal
question
stand up against
duke it out
request
verb
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
noun
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- The mouth of a shaft.
verb
- address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question
- speak to
- give a speech to
- put an address on (an envelope)
- direct a question at someone
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- access or locate by address
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- speak to someone
- adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- the manner of speaking to another individual
- a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described
- written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
- the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball
- social skill
verb
- To urge into action or obedience.
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To hit with any flexible object.
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- To move very fast.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
- To hit with a whip.
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
noun
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- A whipper-in.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- A coach driver; a coachman.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- Whipped cream.
noun
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- A long-haired breed of gundog.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A typesetter.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
verb
verb
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
- To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
noun
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- Discussion of opposing views.
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
verb
- To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
- To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
- To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
- To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
noun
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- A small low stool; a hassock.
- The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
- A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
verb
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
verb
- To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
- To feel very hot; to swelter.
- To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- To stamp or mark with a grill.
noun
- A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- The front teeth regarded collectively.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
verb
- To request or desire to do an activity.
- To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.
- To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- To desire; to want.
noun
verb
- To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To eject; to kick out of a place.
noun
- A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
- A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- A wild guess.
- A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- A bet or wager.
- The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A point in the game of faro.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
verb
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- To deprive of.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- To masturbate.
- To waste away.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To cut off, remove, take away.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
noun
verb
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise to one's feet
- rise up
- come to the surface
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- get up and out of bed
- rise in rank or status
- become heartened or elated
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- increase in volume
- come up, of celestial bodies
- return from the dead
noun
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- an increase in cost
- increase in price or value
verb
- challenge (a decision)
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- be attractive to
- cite as an authority; resort to
noun
- earnest or urgent request
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- request for a sum of money
noun
- Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
- Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
verb
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