sway
rock
shake
tilt
shift
wobble
careen
reciprocatory
reciprocative
linearly
sashay
sidle
retro-
dance
retrograde
back off
back up
back down
crablike
draw back
caudad
recurved
recurvate
move back
pull away
retreat
withdraw
recede
retire
backstep
pull back
longitudinal
swing
ana-
retrad
from side to side
move back and forth
back
bidirectional
slew
slue
skid
slip
slide
behind
nonreciprocating
gostun
backwardly
up and down
backward
transition
backpedal
backwind
around
about
rearwards
frontward
downshift
shuffle
turn around
reversal
angle
reel
set back
skew
fall back
sidewardly
rotate
spin
duck
splay
brandish
aversely
flourish
retropose
retrodisplace
turn out
wave
pull
spread out
retrogradely
retroflex
replicate
ass-backwards
re-
upfront
reciprocating
rare
lateral
retrocedent
reciprocatory
reciprocative
crablike
recurved
recurvate
longitudinal
retrad
back
bidirectional
nonreciprocating
rearwards
frontward
retrograde
upfront
reciprocating
retrocedent
linearly
retrograde
caudad
behind
backwardly
up and down
backward
around
about
rearwards
frontward
back
sidewardly
aversely
retrogradely
ass-backwards
backstep
transition
downshift
turn around
reversal
skew
retrograde
retreat
sway
rock
shake
tilt
shift
wobble
careen
sashay
sidle
dance
back off
back up
back down
draw back
move back
pull away
retreat
withdraw
recede
retire
pull back
swing
move back and forth
slew
slue
skid
slip
slide
gostun
backpedal
backwind
shuffle
angle
reel
back
set back
fall back
rotate
spin
duck
splay
brandish
flourish
retropose
retrodisplace
turn out
wave
pull
spread out
retrograde
retroflex
replicate
rare
lateral
verb
noun
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- pitching dangerously to one side
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
adv
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
noun
- (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
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- withdraw from active participation
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- cause to be returned
- take back what one has said
- keep away from others
- break from a meeting or gathering
- retire gracefully
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- lose interest
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- withdraw from active participation
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- lose interest
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- cause to get out
- prepare for sleep
noun
- A step backwards
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
verb
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To take a step backwards
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
verb
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- To fluctuate or change.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
noun
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
adj
prep_phrase
adj
- Moving or operating backward.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- In arrears; overdue.
adv
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
postp
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- pass out of one's memory
- move out of position
noun
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- a young and slender person
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a slippery smoothness
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a small sheet of paper
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- move smoothly along a surface
noun
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- sloping channel through which things can descend
adv
- In a rearward direction.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
adj
noun
adv
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- 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.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
adj
- 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 in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
noun
noun
- A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- Death; passing from life into death.
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- A change of key.
- A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
- The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
verb
adv
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- in the area or vicinity
- by a circular or circuitous route
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- in a circle or circular motion
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- to a particular destination either specified or understood
- all around or on all sides
- in circumference
- from beginning to end; throughout
adv
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- all around or on all sides
- in the area or vicinity
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
adj
noun
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- A shift of a transmission into a lower gear.
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
verb
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
noun
- turning in an opposite direction or position
- a change from one state to the opposite state
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- turning in the opposite direction
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
verb
- To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- To wind on a reel.
- To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- To be in shock.
noun
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
adv
verb
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To hurl or throw.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adj
verb
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To search rapidly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
noun
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
verb
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- prove to be in the result or end
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- result or end
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- bring forth
- put out or expel from a place
- come and gather for a public event
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- get up and out of bed
verb
- move or swing back and forth
- signal with the hands or nod
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- set waves in
noun
- one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- something that rises rapidly
- the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- an undulating curve
- a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
verb
- move into a certain direction
- cause to move by pulling
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- steer into a certain direction
- strain abnormally
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- operate when rowing a boat
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- tear or be torn violently
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- strip of feathers
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- take away
noun
adj
adv
noun
verb
verb
adj
- Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
noun
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