upwards
pastward
pastwards
laggingly
after
lose time
come down
catch
timeward
antedate
antecede
predate
forego
forgo
precede
hang back
drop behind
back
lag
trail
drop back
get behind
drag
overslip
in time
yestertide
yestertime
slow
saltus
ripe
advanced
postdate
come after
follow
temporalize
innovative
forward-looking
deviate
near
lead
ante-
prior
high time
modern
anterior
time-travel
glide by
pass
slip by
slide by
go by
drag the chain
lapse
go along
out-of-dateness
go past
travel by
pass by
lead up to
prolong
elapse
slip away
surpass
flash forward
protract
approach
come near
ahead
behind
run late
yore
rag the puck
retrogress
go over
fall over
long ago
timeskip
render
about time
hang heavy
continue
earlier
go back
proceed
posteriority
before
go forward
subsequence
subsequentness
move ahead
dodge
supratemporal
pastward
slow
ripe
advanced
innovative
forward-looking
prior
modern
anterior
near
supratemporal
upwards
pastward
pastwards
laggingly
after
timeward
back
yestertide
yestertime
ahead
long ago
about time
earlier
before
behind
saltus
high time
out-of-dateness
yore
timeskip
posteriority
subsequence
subsequentness
approach
retrogress
lose time
come down
catch
antedate
antecede
predate
forego
forgo
precede
hang back
drop behind
lag
trail
drop back
get behind
drag
overslip
postdate
come after
follow
temporalize
deviate
lead
time-travel
glide by
pass
slip by
slide by
go by
drag the chain
lapse
go along
go past
travel by
pass by
lead up to
prolong
elapse
slip away
surpass
flash forward
protract
approach
come near
run late
rag the puck
retrogress
go over
fall over
render
hang heavy
continue
go back
proceed
go forward
move ahead
dodge
adv
prep
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- In pursuit of, seeking.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- In spite of.
- Behind.
- Next in importance or rank.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
- As a result of.
adj
conj
verb
- To be passed through time.
- To reach a decision.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.
- To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
- To rain.
- To decrease.
- To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
- To be demolished.
- To descend, fall down, collapse.
verb
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
adv
adv
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- 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.
- 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.
adj
- 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.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
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.
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.
postp
verb
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To respond slowly.
- To cause to lag; to slacken.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
noun
- A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- Delay; latency.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- A bird, the greylag.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- A prisoner, a criminal.
adj
verb
- to lag or linger behind
- pull, as against a resistance
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- suck in or take (air)
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- walk without lifting the feet
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- proceed for an extended period of time
noun
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
- something that slows or delays progress
- something tedious and boring
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
adj
- Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
adv
noun
verb
adj
- far along in time
- ahead of the times
- farther along in physical or mental development
- comparatively late in a course of development
- at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill
- ahead in development; complex or intricate
- (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry
- situated ahead or going before
verb
- be later in time
- come after in time, as a result
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- travel along a certain course
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- be next
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- to bring something about at a later time than
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- be the successor (of)
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to be the product or result
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- adhere to or practice
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- keep under surveillance
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- grasp the meaning
- keep to
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
prep
adj
- Close in time.
- Physically close.
- So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
- Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
- Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- Closely connected or related.
- Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
- Approximate, almost.
- On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
adv
verb
noun
verb
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- take somebody somewhere
- produce as a result or residue
- tend to or result in
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- be in charge of
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be conducive to
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- lead, extend, or afford access
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- preside over
noun
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead')
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- the introductory section of a story
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- an actor who plays a principal role
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a news story of major importance
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
noun
adj
- ahead of the times
- relating to a recently developed fashion or style
- characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
noun
- a contemporary person
- a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
adj
verb
- move past
- for time to move forward
- go across or through
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
adj
noun
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
verb
verb
verb
- come near in time
- move towards
- come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- begin to deal with
- make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
noun
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- a way of entering or leaving
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- a close approximation
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
prep
- After in time.
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- 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.
adv
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
- 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.
- In a rearward direction.
adj
noun
noun
verb
- To pass down.
- To translate into another language.
- To make over as a return.
- To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- To have fat drip off meat from cooking.
- To cause to become.
- To give; to give back; to deliver.
- To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- To yield or give way.
noun
verb
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- continue talking
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
- continue after an interruption
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- exist over a prolonged period of time
noun
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
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